Carmona, Landshapes and Archeology

Carmona, Landshapes and Archeology

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Low difficulty route, which runs along the roads and trails that connect the town of Carmona. On the way we cross traditional crops in the area, mainly rainfed crops such as cereals, sunflowers etc .. Similarly the road passes through different archaeological remains of ancient civilizations that inhabited the city of Carmona.

The tower Martin Perez Huerta is located in the countryside of Seville, in the town of Carmona. The tower is quadrangular, with about 5 feet square and less than 6 high, giving it a stocky appearance and solid. Built in masonry, has many remains of plaster mortar of lime and sand, though they seem modern, since the tower offers clear evidence of having been used as housing until recently because it is currently in an abandoned farm.

Near the tower mana a spring, which, like many other towers, perhaps his mission was watch. As watchtower his mission is almost zero, because on one hand covers her vision a high plateau, and its unique visual capacity is towards the valley that extends east of Carmona, located in a much higher position and where it has a field of over 30 miles on a clear day.

Human settlements in this area have occurred since ancient times, given its location in the valley of the Guadalquivir. We found bell-shaped glasses that are preserved in the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid and date from the late Neolithic, Chalcolithic specifically from. It was colonized by the Phoenicians and Carthaginians and became a Roman city of great importance as evidenced by the walls and doors, modified in the Almohad period and then in the eighteenth century (doors of Seville and Cordoba) and especially the necropolis outside the city, which had no less than eight hundred tombs, some of which have the appearance of a Roman villa.

Distance: 15.49km
Highest point…………. 218 mts
Lowest point ......... ..80 mts
Total climb gradient: 298 mts
Total downhill slope: 298 mts