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Ermita de la Purísima Concepción
Shrine to the Purísima Concepción

The Shrine to the Purísima Concepción is a temple consecrated to the Purísima Concepción de María Coronada. Documentary evidence shows that it was built in the 18th century, more specifically 1712. 

Iglesia Santa María de La Mota
Santa María de la Mota Church

The Santa María de La Mota Church is located within Marchena’s old Islamic citadel (Alcázar). This walled area, situated in the town’s highest point, is segregated from the rest of the city; hence, its name “La Mota”. It was built around 1356, after King Fernando IV of Castile bestowed the Señorío de Marchena upon Fernando Ponce de León on 18 December 1309.

Fuentes de Andalucía-Iglesia Conventual de la Encarnación
Encarnación Conventual Church

The Church was founded in 1620 by Gómez de Guzmán and Catalina de Sandoval, Marquises of Fuentes. The portal has a classical layout, with a tile panel depicting the Mystery of the Incarnation. It was rebuilt in 1860 after a fire ravaged it in the mid-19th century.

Alcalá del Río.Iglesia Parroquial de Santa María de la Asunción
Santa María de la Asunción Church and Mudéjar Tower Architectural Ensemble

The Santa María de la Asunción Parish Church in Alcalá del Río, built in the early 14th- and 15th-centuries is one of the most remarkable Mudejar buildings in the province.

Asunción Church and Mudéjar Tower:

Iglesia Santa María La Blanca
Santa Maria la Blanca Church

A neoclassical temple built in the fifteenth century. It has interesting decorative elements, sculptures and paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries. Its origins may likely date back to a shrine to Our Lady of Consolation built here in the first half of the fifteenth century. A cluster of houses inhabited by day labourers sprang up around it.

Ermita Ntra. Sra. de la Encarnación
Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación Chapel

In the foothills of Sierra Morena, near the Las Torres stream, which marks the boundary between the municipalities of Gerena and Guillena, the image of Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación was seen in a stone cave or grotto by a man who was riding through the area, causing his horse to bolt in fear resisting all his efforts to restrain it.

Écija-Iglesia de Santiago
Santiago Church

The church, which is accessed through a porticoed courtyard, has a rectangular plan with three naves divided into four sections, separated by octagonal pillars with moulding that support on pointed arches. The naves are covered with a panelled coffered ceiling with Mudejar decoration in the central nave and a hanging ceiling on the side naves.