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Seville enchants

The Natural Science Museum in the Sevillian town of El Real de la Jara is locally renowned for its large and varied collection of birds and mammals that are representative of the area.

Specimens include the Iberian lynx and a two-tailed lizard, among many others.

This Priory Church is the epitome of Carmona’s religious architecture and the town’s largest building.
The earlier Almohad mosque was demolished in 1424 to build the Christian temple, the first phase of which was completed in 1518. The ablutions courtyard remains.

The cultural centre, located in one of the finest examples of civil architecture in the county, houses a museum on the history of writing. 

It also has an area dedicated to the life and legacy of José Manuel Lara Hernández, founder of the Planeta publishing group, who is an El Pedroso native. This centre also focuses on the enormous relevance of mining in the town’s development.

Throughout the centuries, the extraction and transformation of granite stone has been the main occupation of several generations of ‘gereneros’, constituting the economic base of the town, together with agriculture. Testimonies of this tradition can be seen in the Stonemason Museum.

The Lime Museum is located at the heart of the area known as "Las Caleras de la Sierra", in Morón de la Frontera.

The village is registered in the General Catalogue of Andalusian Historical Heritage as an Asset of Cultural Interest, under the heading of Site of Ethnological Interest.

Permanent exhibition of the Municipal Art Museum, in which works of important artists such as Francisco Cuadrado, Claudio Díaz, Francisco Cortijo, Juan Romero and Luis Gordillo are displayed.

The Ciudad de Carmon Museum provides insight into the history of Carmona from its origins (a million years ago) to the present-day. It features archaeological remains from the Palaeolithic, Chalcolithic, Turdetan and Andalusí periods. However, the most important are the Tartessian (Saltillo Vessels), and Roman remains. Also noteworthy is the pictorial collection with works by J.