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The origins of the city of Seville, investigated by analysts and historians during several centuries, have provoked not few controversies about their foundation. The versions and opinions on the matter of are varied: ever since it was the impelling center of the culture of the "campaneiforme glass", happening through being identified like the famous Tharsis, until arriving at Hercules, who, according to the tradition, marked with six stone pillars the place where Julio Caesar would found the city. This illustrious Roman general gave the name him of Iulia Romula Híspalis: Iulia by its own name, Romula by the one of Rome, and Hispalis to be built on posts dug in the ground.
This last legend, very rooted in the popular conscience, caused that in century XVI the Sevillians raised to two statues in honor to Hercules and Caesar who today can be contemplated in the Tree-lined avenue of Hercules.
With firmer and accurate bases, one knows that the city had its beginnings when the turdetanos, inheriting íbero town of Tartesos, create in century VIII a.C. a small town to borders of the Guadalquivir to which they call Ispal. The inhabitants of this territory developed an active commerce that she attracted travellers of very different origin, in his majority, Greek, Phoenician and Carthaginian.
The small city would be devastated in century II a.C. by the Carthaginians and it would not be reconstructed until the arrival of the Romans. |
