History of La Puebla de Cazalla

The municipality of the Puebla de Cazalla is located between the regions of the Sevillian Countryside and the South Mountain range, in the Southeastern quadrant of the province. Its population in 1.996 promoted 10,825 inhabitants.

These earth have known throughout history the passage different cultures. Archaeological rest of the periods turdetano, Roman, visigodo and Arab exist. The name of the locality can have its origin in castrates (Roman military camp), that the Arabs would modify by Castalla. In the Repartimiento of Seville of year 1,253, later to the Christian conquest of the zone, it appears like Cazalla of the Border, in relation to his bordering position with the earth that still were in being able Muslim. The locality and its term are given initially at your service of Calatrava, that had collaborated with Fernando III in the conquering task, to happen later to hands of the family Girón, the future Dukes of Osuna, with the mission of repoblar them and defending them. For it a Puebla Letter is granted, that official does the foundation of the well-known one since then like Puebla de Cazalla.

The urban nucleus is located closely together in the northern end of the municipal term and of the channel of the Corbones river, that flows to the east. Most of the population is developed to the south of the old passage of the N-334 highway (Seville-Malaga). Recently the Railcar of the 92 has been constructed, that runs to the north of the locality.

The nucleus presents/displays a very compact morphology to the south of the old passage, with a series of supported more dispersed industrial and tertiary developments in the mentioned one via and to the north of the same one. In the main sector the residential use predominates, with great apples of regular forms, oriented so much of north to the south as of this a the west. The western end, to the other side of the fairground, has a totally orthogonal layout, with apples of so large minor. The route that crosses the locality from the Parochial Church (in the Eastern end of the population) to the cemetery (in the western end) forms like estructurante axis of the same one.

Between its constructions of artistic historical interest they emphasize the Parochial Church of Our Lady of the Virtues (century XVI), the church of the Convent of Our Lady of the Candlemas (century XVI), the hermitage of San jOse (century XVIII) and the City council.

Shield divided in pale.
In the first pale:
In field of gules,
A "clarified of azur and mazonado gold castle" of saber.
In the second pale:
In silver field,
a green olive tree with trunk in its color.
To the timbre:
Closed real crown.