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La Luisiana - Pósito Municipal - Ayuntamiento
Pósito Municipal

This 18th-century building was the communal granary until the second half of this century. It was also home to the municipal administrative offices. Today, it is the Town Hall, and visitors can admire the beautiful groin vaults, typical of the colonial-baroque style.

La Luisiana-Casa de Postas
Casa de Postas

The Casa de Postas, coaching inn, is the most important civil building in La Luisiana. It has been afforded the highest degree of statutory protection. Its name derived from its intended use many years ago. 

Mairena del Alcor-Iglesia Santa María de la Asunción
Santa María de la Asunción Church

The Santa María de la Asunción Church still preserves traces of its Mudejar-Gothic origin despite the many additions and changes undergone to date. Its origin is likely between the 14th and 15th centuries when Ponce de León was granted the lordship of Mairena.

Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de Consolación
Our Lady of Consolation Church

This church was part of the former convent of the Franciscan Third Order. A large building that was used as barracks after the confiscation by Mendizábal, and later, in 1952, a school run by Piarist fathers.

Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Carmen
Nuestra Señora del Carmen Church

The Nuestra Señora del Carmen Church was founded in the 18th century on the site of 16th-century Shrine to Cristo de la Sangre. A few Gothic-Mudejar elements from the Shrine still can be seen. 

The Marquises of Estepa used the temple’s crypt as their pantheon for many centuries.

Palacio de Santaella
Santaella Palace

The Palace of the Counts of Puerto Hermoso, commonly known by the name of its former owner as Santaella Palace, is an excellent example of Ecija’s palatial houses and 18th-century civil architecture. 

Iglesia de San Antonio Abad
Church of San Antonio Abad

The Church of San Antonio Abad in Pruna is a splendid baroque building, whose structure (prior to the 16th century) consisting of a single barrel vault, in an undefined style, with a façade at the back (under the choir), was completed in the 17th and 18th centuries. To this nave, the two side naves, the chancel and the magnificent dome of the transept were added.