History of Salteras

The municipality of Salteras is located in the western sector of the province of Seville, belonging to the region of the Aljarafe. In 1.996 it counted on a population of 2,875 inhabitants. The urban nucleus is based on a small hill located in the northern end of the region.

These earth have been occupied by the man for at least three thousand years. The Romans found a denominated locality Paesula, that arrives to reach enough importance. The place decays in the days of the visigodos until getting to disappear like population. On the ruins of Paesula, the Arabs settle down in century VIII a farmhouse dedicated to the agricultural and cattle tasks, that little by little welcome new small villages until getting to form a population. After the Christian conquest, that takes place in the middle of century XIII, the village begins to be well-known like Salteras. Its term belongs to a large extent to the hispalense municipal town hall. In 1.443 street is considered ", keeps and collación from Seville ", privilege granted by king Juan II, who grants to fueros and own tax exemptions to him. In century XVII, the locality is acquired by the horseman Don Juan de Federegui, who repuebla the place. In 1.641, Don Gaspar de Guzmán, count-Duke of Olive groves, buy the villa, becoming Sir of Salteras. Posteriomente will belong to señorío of the House of Dawn.

The urban nucleus is located in the layout of the Se-510 highway, that crosses of this a the west the Aljarafe and that communicates this locality with Valencina (by the east) and with Olivares and Albaida (by the west). A circumvallation round exists that runs by the northern sector of the town, being little the urban development to the north of the same one.

It is possible to differentiate between the urban helmet traditional, located in the central zone of the town, around the church, and the new peripheral developments, in which it emphasizes the presence of urbanizations as the Olive (located to the northwest), the Lark, the Dehesilla or the Fuenblanca (to the east and the northeast). These promotions welcome unifamiliares houses destined in second or first residence of workers of the Sevillian capital.

Between its constructions of artistic historical interest they emphasize the church of Oliva (towards 1,500, of style to mudéjar) and the chapel or hermitage of the same invocation.

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