Sanlúcar la Mayor
| Sanlúcar la Mayor municipality | |||
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| Basic data | |||
| Autonomous Community : | Andalusia | ||
| Province : | Seville | ||
| Comarca : | Aljarafe | ||
| Coordinates | 37 ° 23 ′ N , 6 ° 12 ′ W | ||
| Height : | 148 msnm | ||
| Area : | 135.41 km² | ||
| Residents : | 13,808 (Jan 1, 2019) | ||
| Population density : | 101.97 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Postal code : | 41800 | ||
| Municipality number ( INE ): | 41087 | ||
| Nearest airport : | Seville | ||
| administration | |||
| Official language : | IT | ||
| Mayor : | Eustaquio Castaño | ||
| Address of the municipal administration: | Plaza Virgen de los Reyes, 1, 41800 Sanlúcar la Mayor | ||
| Website : | www.sanlucarlamayor.es | ||
Sanlúcar la Mayor is a Spanish municipality in the Andalusian province of Seville . The inhabitants are called Sanluqueñas or Sanluqueños .
Geographical location
Sanlúcar la Mayor is located 18 kilometers east of the provincial capital Seville . Other neighboring communities are Olivares , Albaida del Aljarafe , Aznalcóllar and Gerena in the north, Castilleja del Campo , Huévar del Aljarafe and Escacena in the west and Espartinas in the south.
economy
Due to its location in the settlement ring around Seville, the place has recently experienced a remarkable growth in population, housing construction, manufacturing and trade. The place is the judicial center of the Comarca Aljarafe.
In 2007 the solar thermal power plant PS10 went into operation; the first commercial power plant of its kind in Europe. In the same year the construction of the central fire station began.
history
Toponym
The toponym may have been originally Solucar and was derived from the Latin lucus , sacred grove . A number of other places have the same name:
- Sanlúcar de Barrameda in the province of Cádiz
- Sanlúcar de Guadiana in the province of Huelva
- Sanlúcar de Albaida in the province of Seville changed its name to Albaida del Aljarafe .
All these places have something in common:
- You are on the left bank of a river: Sanlúcar la Mayor and Albaida del Aljarafe on the Guadiamar , Sanlúcar de Barrameda on the Guadalquivir and Sanlúcar del Guadiana on the river with that name .
- You are on a hill above the river.
- The river flows west, possibly a necessity for pre-Romanesque rituals of sun worship.
16th Century
In 1534, 628 people lived in the village. It was the largest in the area of today's Comarca Aljarafe. In that century he enjoyed an economic and social boom; initially because of its location as an important defensive bastion against Arab attacks and later as a strategic waypost on the main route Camino real to Portugal . In 1594 Sanlúcar la Mayor belonged to the Kingdom of Seville and had 802 taxable citizens.
Population development
| Demographic evolution of Sanlúcar la Mayor | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 1675 | 1787 | 1842 | 1860 | 1877 | 1887 | 1897 | 1900 | 1910 | 1920 | 1930 | 1940 | 1950 | 1960 | 1970 | 1981 | 1991 | 2001 | 2018 | |
| 800 | 2,181 | 2,245 | 3,726 | 3,776 | 4,336 | 4,225 | 4,367 | 4,310 | 4,515 | 4,992 | 5,458 | 5,954 | 6,149 | 6,610 | 7,758 | 9.434 | 10,858 | 13,683 | |
traffic
The place is a transport hub west of Seville.
The bus lines M-102, M-165, and M-166 connect the place with Seville and with the rest of the comarca. The Cercanías line C-5 offers a rail connection to Seville.
politics
mayor
In February 2010, the then mayor, Juan Escámez Luque, died of a heart attack . He was succeeded by the deputy mayor Raúl Castilla Gutiérrez. For the legislative period following the local elections in 2011, the parliamentary groups of the PP and the Alternativa por Sanlúcar agreed that Juan Antonio Naranjo should be Rioja mayor until 2013 and then Antonio Manuel Pérez Márquez until 2015. From 2015 to 2019 Raúl Castilla Gutierrez was mayor and since 2019 it has been Eustaquio Castaño Salado.
Municipal council elections
| Results 2011 | |||
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| Political party | be right | % | Seats |
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Partido Socialista Obrero Español Alternative for Sanlúcar |
3,046 1.917 1,514 |
45.98% 28.94% 22.86% |
8th 5 4th |
| Results 2015 | |||
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| Political party | be right | % | Seats |
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Partido Socialista Obrero Español Izquierda Unida Los Verdes - Convocatoria por Andalucía Alternative for Sanlúcar Grupo Independiente Sanluqueño Democracia y Libertad Popular Partido Popular |
2348 526 1003 281 1472 146 555 |
36.64% 8.21% 15.65% 4.39% 22.97% 2.28% 8.66% |
7th 1 3 0 5 0 1 |
Buildings
San Pedro Church
The Church of San Pedro is located on the former walled Almohad quarter. Similar to other church buildings in southern Spain, it is a converted mosque. The orientation of the main portals has been redesigned according to the Christian liturgy.
The building consists of three naves . They are separated from each other by rows of columns with pointed arches . The main portal has a round arch, the two portals to the right and left of it each have a pointed arch. The bell tower was outside the mosque building on a kind of patio . It is different from the other Arabic minarets preserved in the province and is unique in its style. The choir is raised more than usual, as it is located above a barrel vault that served as an inlet into the walled fortress area. Inside there are remains of Mudejar stucco work.
The old cemetery was in the walled churchyard. It was abandoned and relocated when the new cemetery opened. Nowadays there is an inner courtyard where concerts are performed on summer nights.
San Eustaquio Church
The three-aisled church in the Mudejar style is located on the highest point of the historical center of the city. There was a Roman temple on the site in ancient times. The naves are separated from each other by pointed arches. The baroque style retable of the main altar dates from the 18th century.
On the left is a Rococo altarpiece with a portrait of the Virgen de los Remedios , and another with a portrait of Christo de la Salud . Both pictures are from the 16th century.
In the right aisle there are pictures of the Immaculate Conception and Saint Joseph as well as sculptures from the 16th century. In the tabernacle chapel there is a statue of the Virgen de Fuentes Claras from the 15th century.
A number of other paintings and retables date from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
Santa María Church
The church of Santa María is the only one of the three mentioned where services are still celebrated. It was built in the 13th century and expanded in the 16th and 17th centuries. The tower was modified due to the damage it suffered in the Lisbon earthquake in 1772.
The church consists of three naves with Aljarafe ceilings. They are separated from each other by round arches supported by pillars and four paired columns. On the nave, on the step to the lower transept, there is a delicate Gothic turret.
In the left aisle there is an altarpiece with an image of the crucifixion of St. Peter . The work from the 14th century is of great artistic and historical value. In the sacristy there is a treasure chamber with valuable forged works of art made of different metals in different styles.
In the main altarpiece from which there is a sculpture of Our Lady of the Rosary . Since 2015, the silver keys of the parish have been given to her.
Benazuza Manor
The estate was established in the 10th century under Arab rule. After the Reconquista , it was owned by various Castilian nobles and the Order of Santiago . It served Alfonso X as a refuge.
Today it houses a luxury hotel and a restaurant by the three-star chef Ferrán Adriá .
Cilla del Cabildo (fruit house)
The Cilla del Cabildo was the fruit house in which the tithe was collected and kept. The building has a richly decorated facade.
Colegio público San Eustaquio
The Colegio San Eustaquio is a public school building constructed in the 1910s by the architect Aníbal González .
town hall
A large painting by the Sevillian painter Francisco Meneses Osorio depicting the conception of Mary hangs above the main staircase of the town hall .
Culture
Events and festivals
Fair in May
The fair was started by Ferdinand VII as a cattle fair. It served as a model for the fair in Seville and is 20 years older than the latter. The fair, popularly known as the Feria del Aljarafe , traditionally started on Thursday lunchtime. At the instigation of the local administration, it has recently opened on Wednesday evening. It always started at the beginning of May, but over time it has been determined that it always starts two weeks before Seville.
Originally the location was at the entrance to Seville. A cross marks this old location. At the beginning of the 20th century, the fair was moved to the Corredera , a park specially created for this purpose. This has been expanded several times over the years.
Holy Week
In Sanlúcar la Mayor there are seven penitentiary communities who hold their processions and rituals in the Semana Santa .
More festivals
- Corpus christi , the feast of Corpus Christi with a procession with the monstrance in the afternoon .
- Fiesta de San Pedro , Feast of Saint Peter: On the evening of June 29th, a Verbena , an evening festival, takes place in the Plaza de San Pedro . This celebrates the conquest of the city by the Muslims. They capitulated on June 29th.
- The Fiestas de la Virgen del Carmen take place from July 16-25.
- The Fiesta de San Eustaquio , the festival in honor of the patron saint, takes place on September 20th at the Church of San Eustaquio. From there a procession with a carved sculpture of the saint moves through the city.
- Feast days in honor of the Blessed Virgin of the Rosary are celebrated from late September to early October. They end with a procession on the last day.
Sports
The Atlético Sanlúcar CF football club played up to the Tercera División . It has a modern stadium with artificial turf
The women's handball club BM Solúcar has existed for around 30 years. The senior team plays in the División de Honor Plata , the silver honor division, and has been involved several times in promotion to the highest class of the honor division.
The basketball club Pasarela Solúcar played in 2007 in the highest Andalusian league. In the recent past, attempts have been made to build on this success by founding a youth team.
Other cultural institutions
Founded in 1997, the Cine Club Solúcar is one of the oldest cinema clubs in Spain. In 2006 he was awarded the Sanluqueño del año Culture Prize.
A local radio station has been broadcasting in Sanlúcar La Mayor since 184. It was initially operated by the cultural association Asociación Cultural Aljarafe . In 2004 it passed into municipal hands. He called himself first Radio Sanlúcar , later Onda Sur radio and finally Solúcar radio . It broadcasts on VHF 88.7 MHz .
Personalities
- José Antonio Muñoz Sousa (* 1972), torero .
- Pedro Morales de Vicente El Gaona Sanluqueño (1901-1942) torero.
- Eduardo Palencia, singer and songwriter
- Diego Rafael El Nene, singer
- José Morales Chocolate , Picador
- Curro Javier Amores, torero
- Concha López Narváez (* 1939), writer
- Teresa Arbolí, actress
- Francisco Martínez Gonzalez (* 1967), author
- Pedro Moreno Valero, El Perico (* 1947), trumpeter
- Pedro Rodríguez Pacheco (* 1941), writer and poet
Web links
- City's website
- Sanlúcar la Mayor Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía (SIMA)
References and comments
- ↑ Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).
- ^ Rodrigo Caro: Poesía castellana y latina e inscripciones originales. estudio, edición crítica, traducción, notas e índices de J. Pascual Barea . Diputación de Sevilla, Sevilla January 2, 2000, p. 74-75 .
- ^ Francisco Amores Martínez: Los Hospitales de la ciudad de Sanlúcar la Mayor (Seville) en la Edad Moderna . In: La Iglesia española y las instituciones de caridad . Instituto Escurialense de Investigaciones Históricas y Artísticas, Sevilla 2006, ISBN 84-89788-16-2 , pp. 816 (Spanish, unirioja.es [PDF; accessed March 19, 2020]).
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadística de España, Alteraciones de los municipios en los Censos de Población desde 1842, Series de población de los municipios de España desde 1996. The figures from 1675 come from Población general de España by Rodrigo Méndez Silva . The figures from 1787 come from the Censo de Floridablanca , see Población de los municipios de Andalucía según los censos de 1787 a 2001. Junta de Andalucía.
- ↑ German for example Our Lady of Healing; an invocation to Mary popular in Spain and founded by the Trinitarian order
- ↑ Christ of Health
- ↑ Our Lady of Clear Sources. Possibly a reference to the city of Fuentes Claras in Aragon.