Semana Santa Estepa

Seville enchants

This single-nave church is covered with a remarkable Mudejar-style frame from 1596. It is accessed through the entrance located on the right wall. The angled bell gable on the entrance dates back to 1760. It has a baroque decoration with a moulded frieze, pendants, polychrome blue tiles on white walls and bricks, crowned by a curved split pediment around the top and a wrought-iron cross.

The Santa Florentina Convent is one of the first Dominican convents in Andalusia. The original building and foundations date back to the second half of the sixteenth century. Today, it comprises several buildings from different periods, mostly the 17th and 18th centuries.

The Cloistered Convent of the Franciscan Order of Santa Clara was founded with the approval of Pope Pius II and under the aegis of the Duchess of Arcos. It is the oldest of Carmona’s female convents. 

The building has various architectural styles as its construction lasted several years. It is a beautiful combination of Mudejar, Renaissance and Baroque.    

Currently, the convent is occupied by a community of Augustinian Recollects Barefoot Nuns. 

In 1629, this convent was fraudulently founded against the will of the Carmona Chapter.   Nonetheless, it was inaugurated in 1748 in a solemn ceremony.  The church is profusely decorated in true baroque-style, in particular its main façade, with a double entrance and a tower.

One of the most interesting houses in the city. Built in the 18th century in masonry and stonework, this stately home is located on one of the historical areas of the old town.  It sits on a privileged site opposite the Santa María Church, framed by three streets, one on the front and the other two on the sides.     

The 18th-century residential architecture acquired an extraordinary dimension in Seville’s countryside, as it reflected the resurgence of the agrarian economy in towns and villages.

This 16th-century building was renovated in the 19th and 20th centuries. The overall layout and several architectural elements such as capitals, columns and arches are reminiscent of town hall buildings from the Andalusian Renaissance and Baroque periods.