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This typical Andalusian and olive Town municipality of Bollullos de la Mitación, whose only entity of population is the town of the same name nailed in full region of the Aljarafe in the south-west of the province.
In the municipal term there have been traces that indicate her existence of several Roman towns dedicated to the agriculture. Precisely of this epoch it dates back the complement "to the Mitación", to to exist a place for the relief (Mutatio, in Latin) of the horses. This position would be attached to a state-run hotel or accommodation for travelers and perhaps also barracks or garrison, according to hypothesis supported between others, for the historian D. José Maria of Ore. Without I impede, there are those who prefer to relate "mitación" with "limit", or be, that the determination of a border would be with regard to someone a ranch or region. In front of this denomination, there imposes on himself in epoch Arab, that of Bulbul or Bul-Lul, which means small fort or position militarily, what would come to feed the version of the camp military Roman. In these payments several populations were barren of Moslem epoch of that some remains stay today archaeological, as it is the case of the chapel of Cuatrovitas, ancient Almohad mosque.
The original nucleus of the current town, places in the environment of the Square of Our Lady of Cuatrovitas, being limited towards west up to the Umbrete highway and for the south, for the Chapel Roncesvalles
MONUMENTS
Of the Moslem period (XIIth century) it is the Cuatrovitas chapel, ancient Almohad mosque, and religious center of four villages of area. Later it was adapted to the Christian cult and in actuality is catalogued like National monument. With Images of the XVIth and XVIIth centuries.
The church of St Martin of Tours, neoclassic, which construction dates of the XVIIIth century, building with only one ship and chapels side between the buttresses. They are important his decoration and the architectural elements that it possesses in his interior, with stage of Zurbarán.
Chapel of Ntra. Mrs. of Roncesvalle (ancient San hospital Sebastián) of XIXth century. In her they emphasize sculptures of the centuries XVI and XVIII.
Diverse household chores of the baroque epoch, like that of San Ignacio of Torquemada.
Pilgrimage of Cuatrovitas:
Holidays in honor of the Virgin of Cuatrovitas, boss of the Town and of the union of the olive of verdeo in the Aljarafe, which take place during September. On the fourth Sunday of October her Boss is moved in pilgrimage to the sanctum, where it remains even on July 25, which is the date that returns to the village. His origins go back at the end of the XV.th century (fte. It joins andalucia)
Nuclei: Urban development Entrecaminos, Urban development Juliana |
