Semana Santa Estepa

Seville enchants

This is a stately residence, designed as a recreational estate with a historicist style, associated with a property specialised in the breeding of fighting bulls. The site was well chosen, as it stands on a gentle hill overlooking the beautiful dehesa that spreads out around it.

The place known today as Cortijo Torre de la Reina was once the rearguard settlement of one of the camps of King Fernando III el Santo during the conquest of Seville. In the late 13th and early 14th centuries it was owned by Queen María de Molina, which is why the building is called Torre de la Reina (Queen's Tower).

Casa Señorial Villa Emilia, also popularly known as La Casa Bonita, designed by the illustrious architect of the Plaza de España in Seville, Aníbal González Álvarez-Ossorio.

The house was built in 1901 and has unquestionable architectural value. It is located in the property known as "El Gurugú", with pedestrian access from Calle Virgen del Robledo, and is set in a prime position high above the town. It is currently the Monastery of the Idente missionaries.

The centre of the Osa Valley, next to the River Villa, which is hidden from the view of passers-by, is of more recent construction, from the 15th to the 18th century. This area is made up of wider streets, adapted to the flat area, and which reveal the economic power of the landowners, merchants and industrialists of the time.

The house was built by an Italian merchant in the late 19th century. 

This is one of El Coronil’s most significant palaces, built in 1714 after Diego Quebrado de Leon y Carvajal wed Maria Ana de la Calle y Castilla. Following the death of the nobleman in 1771, it was bequeathed to the Pious Schools of the Mother of God.