History of Villanueva del Ariscal

History of Villanueva del Ariscal

The small municipality of Villanueva of the Ariscal is located in the western sector of the province of Seville, belonging to the region of the Aljarafe. In 1.996 it had a population of 4,432 inhabitants. The urban nucleus is located in the southern limit of the term.

In these earth the presence of the man is stated from remote times, although the more important archaeological vestiges are of Roman time. The Arabs found an agricultural farmhouse (Talastar) that little by little she acquires greater importance. When the Christians conquer this territory in 1.248, king Fernando III Santo (in the Repartimiento of Seville) grants Military man to it of Santiago at your service. During the reign of Alfonso X the Wise person, the population is denominated Villanueva Aliscar. Century XIV one becomes administrative and judicial center of the Order in the Aljarafe. In 1.537 he is sold to the county of Gelves, becoming señorío. In century XVII he grants himself to Leonor of Portugal, vizcondesa of Torquemada, the title of Marquise of Villanueva, that her family shows until the abolition of the señoríos in century XIX.

In Villanueva an original nucleus is distinguished (centuries XIII to the XVI), constituted by the apples that appear around the Parochial Church, with reduced dimensions and irregular forms. A series of radial streets converges in the church, being this geometric configuration cut by the way from Seville to Olive groves. This primitive nucleus is located in the central sector, something Eastern, of Villanueva. Between centuries XVI and XIX, the population lives a slow growth in two-way traffic: Towards the Southeastern, until the hermitage located in the direction of Seville, sector of medium properties where the bourgeois class is based. And towards the west, where great irregular apples with internal emptinesses arise, destined to small proprietors and laborers. This last tendency of development continues with greater force in second half of century XIX, although now with apples of so large minor that the previous ones.

From principles of century XX to 1,965 it continues the growth towards the west, appearing a new axis of development in the highway of Olive groves (to the north). The expansion towards the south is still little important, although it is there where it is going away to locate a new access to the town with the construction of a semiround. From 1,965 to 1,980, the growth takes place by diverse urbanizations of second residences (until now nonexistent in the municipality), located to the east and the south of the helmet, to horse between the terms of Villanueva and Espartinas. Also initiates in the decade of the 60 are finished now to some quarters of leaned houses. The growth of the last years has been to the east and the south with the administrative limit of the term of Espatinas. For that reason, the expansion of Villanueva has oriented towards the north and the west, first with interventions traditional and later with tipologías of houses leaned on a regular roadway. They have been taken care, like extension of the urban helmet, the lands surrounded by the semiround, to the time that in the exit of the highway of Olive groves new houses have arisen from second residences. The resulting morphology at the present time is irregular and something disperses.

Special importance has had for the urban helmet the warehouses, concentrated in five great apples incorporated to the original nucleus, to the west of the same one. They are the urban plasmación of the more traditional and important economic dedication of Villanueva of the Ariscal.

Between its constructions of artistic historical interest they emphasize the Parochial Church of Santa Maria of Snows (century XVIII), the hermitage of San Miguel and the property Iron Leg.

CITY COUNCIL OF VILLANUEVA DEL ARISCAL
Plaza de España, 1
41808 - VILLANUEVA DEL ARISCAL
Tlf.: 95 - 411.30.35/32.04
Fax: 95 - 411.39.61
email: villanuevariscal@dipusevilla.es