CRONOLOGIA

Century I SAW C. The Phoenicians introduce the worship to Hercules, mythical founder of the city.

257 a.C. Occupation cartaginesa.

206 a.C. Foundation of Italics by Scipio the African.

45 a.C. Seville is become city for July Caesar, al to conclude the battle of Munda.

409 Plunder of the city by the Vandals.

531 Phase of cultural splendor after the Visigoth invasion.

711 The Islam arrives at Seville.

740 Abdel Ramán III proclaims independent emirate to Isbilia (Seville).

844 The vikingos arrive for the river to the city, plundering it and burning the old Greater mosque, today Parish of El Salvador.

900 Isbilia enters to form part of the from cordoba Caliphate.

1031 Isbilia becomes a kingdom of Taifas al to be disintegrated the from cordoba Caliphate.

1071 Under the reign of Al-Mutamid, Isbilia becomes the kingdom of Taifas more desarollado of the peninsula.

1091 Al-Mutamid is ousted for the Almorávides and they are done with the power.

1171 Begins the construction of the New Greater Mosque and of its great alminar, today tower of the weather Vane, by order of Abú

Yacub Yusuf.

1248 The city is conquered by Fernando III the Saint. They are expelled the Moslems and themselves repuebla with Castile arrival

people. With them the Mudejars they live together and the Jews.

1350 Reign of Pedro I the Cruel one.

1391 The archdeacon of Ecija incites to the people to the first killing of Jews in Spain.

1400 Placement in La Giralda of the first public clock of Spain.

1477 Foundation of the first press in Seville.

1481 It is installed in Seville the first court of the Holy Investigation.

1493 Columbus enters the city of return of its first trip.

1503 It begins the Age of Gold in Seville al to monopolize the commerce with the Indies.

1519 Magellan initiates its expedition that will give the first return al world since the port of Seville.

1526 In the Fortress of Seville the real wedding of Carlos is celebrated I and Isabel of Portugal.

1599 It is born in Seville the largest painter of the 17th century, Diego de Silva Velázquez.

1602 Cervantes begins the writing of The Quijote while is found prisoner in the carcel Real Sevillian.

1610 Expulsion of the Moors of Andalusia.

1649 The population of the city is reduced halfway by an epidemic of plague.

1661 La Relación o Gaceta de Sevilla is printed, that initiates the periodic publications in Spain.

1680 It begins the commercial sunset of Seville, owed al transfer of the fleet from Indies to Cadiz.

1682 Bartolomé Esteban Murillo dies in Seville.

1728 They begin the works of the Factory of Tobaccos.

1755 Great part of the city is destroyed for the earthquake “of Lisbon”.

1758 The first public coffee of Seville is inaugurated.

1808 The Central Meeting is established in Seville, fleeing the French.

1810 The French occupy the city plunder great part of the artistic patrimony.

1812 It is proclaimed the Liberal Constitution and the French are expelled of Seville.

1817 The steamboats enter for the first time in the port of Seville with the ship Betis.

1820 Reinstauración constitucional.

1825 Paving of the streets of the city, under the mandate of the assistant one Arjona.

1831 The School of Bullfighting is founded.

1837 The Desamortización of Mendizábal carries to the ruin to numerous convents and Sevillian temples.

1839 The Factory of Ceramics is founded of Pickman in the building disentailed of Santa María de las Cuevas.

1852 The Bridge is inaugurated of Triana and begins the lighting of gas at the same time that the railway way between Seville is

opened and Cordoba.

1849 Takes place the first Feria de Abril.

1855 The Station of train of Cordoba is inaugurated.

1877 It is make public in Seville the wedding of the king Alfonso XII with María de las Mercedes.

1899 El Correo de Andalucía publishes its first number.

1920 Burial of Joselito el Gallo.

1929 La Exposición Iberoamericana is inaugurated that transforms the city.

1987 They begin the land movements works of the Island of the Monastery for the Exposición Universal of 1992.

1991 Inauguration of the Teatro de la Maestranza and of the Just Saint train Station.

1992 World’s Fair in the Island of La Cartuja.

1995 Wedding of the infant Elena and Jaime of Marichalar, celebrated in the cathedral March 18.

The rampart walk has been always the natural step of the Strait of Gibraltar to the peninsula, for what all the peoples that have entered Spain the South have followed this route of trip. The travelers and painters of the 19th century raised it to the category of legend. The British writer Richard Ford, with romantic exaggeration, was preparing his compatriots on the dangers of this way become infected with smugglers and bandits.

His more famous section passes close to the bed of the river Genal, between Gaucín and You Catch, these in turn joined by a communication named Road Landscape painter, call like that for elements of construction used, with excellent viewing-points towards the valley.

Gustavo Doré realized a couple of portraits towards half of the 19th century of the types that one could be in the rampart walk. He was zone apparently controlled by smugglers and bandits, but neither the muleteers nor the military men nor the tourists should have felt intimidated by these evil-doers, because numerous texts of the epoch indicate that they were many those who were crossing to diary, astride or afoot, the way in one or another sense. In Gaucín’s sale there stayed the first travelers, english men almost always, and between them many famous artists.

CASTLE WITH HISTORY Gaucín was at the time, and it continues it being now, the most important villageof the valley. From his castle, a fortress inespugnable, it is possible to contemplate the Rock of Gibraltar and the African coast with an amazing clarity. There he died in 1309, on having tried to suffocate a Moslem revolt, Guzmán Well, famously for leading the heroic defense of Tariff in the year 1293.

The air of the coast comes up to Gaucín and smooths the rigors of these mountains astride between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean. The village is precious and beautiful placed concerning the castle, his feet, being unhooked on the mountain opposite to the river Genal, whose riverbed spies hundreds of meters down below, in his last section, up to his river mouth, foreigners have chosen it as place of residence. To the south of Gaucín, to scanty kilometres direction to Algeciras.

Leisure and amusement, AMAZING DIZZINESS The landscape is spectacular, sinuous, full of curves, of slopes, of changes of color and of vegetation. Close to the river, the gardens, orange trees, pomegranates, and many zones without cultivating, left, with plants that grow of wild form. Also they can turn extensive groves of evergreen oaks, meadows, pines, varied forests and to reach the highest part of the road, concerning Catch You, stout bare mountains tamed by an implacable wind, which in his days of rage, turns out to be terrible.

Catch you, Benarrabá, Algatocín, Jubrique, Guenalguacil, Benalauría, Benadalid and Gaucín, they shape the Consortium Fence of the Genal. All these villages appear between the nicest of Andalusia. The simple elements of the rural architecture of the region, they are kept inaltered. Algatocín placed as Gaucín next to the road, being left to fall down for a respectable hanging mountain below , he turns out to be distinguished by a curious church of bluish dome that, at least to the eyes of the lay person, certain guard oriental air. Benarrabá and Benalauría remain sunk close to the road, close to the river, and to come up to them is necessary to get down for paths roads full of curls and with slopes of dizziness. From the high thing, his emplacement produces amazement.

In Benalauría, very developed village turísticamente together with Gaucín, there is an interesting Ethnographic Museum that plans a brief tour for the forms of life and production of the Mountainous country. From Algatocín it divides a route that leads the Costa del Sol across the Royal ones of Vermilion Saw. The one who has time must know this magnificent route. To few Algatocín’s kilometres, for this road landscape painter, there are situated Jubrique and Genalguacil, precious villages nailed in a humid place, of exuberant nature. The Genalguacil they have come celebrating in the last years a few meetings of plastic artists who have left in the village a series of paintings and sculptures of great value.

SWEET CRAFTS Between the monuments of the zone it is necessary to distinguish the remains of a tower of Arabic times llamda today from the Santa Cruz, in Catch You; Benadalid’s cemetery, which one finds inside the enclosure of an old Arabic castle, the Town hall of Benalauría, of the 18th century, you change parochial churches raised between the XVIth and XVIIIth centuries, which guard some artistic objects of value. From the tourist point of view, the Valley of the Genal presents an enviable panorama. It possesses numerous and precious rural houses and farmhouses, good restaurants.

The Axarquía o Ajarquía (pronounced both The Ajarquía) is a region located in the easternmost part of the province of Malaga (Spain), on the border with the province of Granada. The district stretches along the coast as much of the interior, and its coastal municipalities make up the Costa del Sol East.
Its capital and largest city, is Vélez and residents of the region are called axárquicos.
Bordered: N with the District Alhama E with the county tropical coast, the S, on the Mediterranean Sea, the O Malaga, and NOT with the region of Nororma.
County Media: TV VTV-Axarquía, newspaper “The Voice of the Axarquía”, and newspaper “The Axarquía.

Etymology:
The Dictionary of the Spanish Royal Academy defines voice “jarquía” as a “territory or district site east of a big city and are dependent on it,” and said that comes from the Arabic šarqíyya, meaning east. In the province of Malaga is the region called La Ajarquía, Arabic name of the mountains of Malaga, in the North and East of the capital. In many texts written his name appears Axarquía, with x - which is also correct, but which may induce the reader to give this letter to the sound ks that is the modern is assigned, and speak wrongly The Aksarquía.
The Royal Academy, in its spelling of the Spanish Language, edition of 1999, explains: “In the Middle Ages, the x also represents the phoneme fricativo palatal of deaf dixo, from the sixteenth century to develop the phoneme fricativo ensure for deaf said. few remnants of this script are in place names such as Mexico, Oaxaca, Texas and its derivatives (Mexican Oaxaca, texano …), and some surnames as Ximénez or Mexía. Pronunciation of this x, in these and other words, it is fricative ensure deaf, ie sounds like j; therefore constitutes an error ortológico articulate as ks. ”
You can add that among those other words referred to the Royal Academy, without naming, is undoubtedly Axarquía. Francisco boat in his book Knowing Malaga, cultural and tourist guide from the capital and its peoples, began its chapter Velez Malaga and its region with these words: “The Axarquía (or Ajarquía) is located in a wide valley …” .
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Located in the Serranía de Ronda, between the Sierra de Cañete and Sierra Zorrito. Almargen identifies with the people of the plains that have their main livelihood in agriculture, in a landscape of olive groves, fields of grain and sunflower. There are many archaeological sites that confirm the existence of settlements from the Copper Age, perduraciones during the Bronze, ibero-romanos and Islamic.

The heart of the village is its main square, where there is a source, and is very close the church of the Immaculate Conception (c.XVI). They are sights medicinally, the wellspring of Casablanca and the caves of St. Peter and Casablanca. The saw Almargen and Salt River site are suitable for the practice of walking and cycling. They can see archaeological remains extraordinarily valuable, as a kind of idol concealed phallic, a stele engraved in the Bronze Age or a copy of the first spades of Prehistory.

They are highly valued craft work based on forged and the forge. The gastronomy Almargen is determined by the products they grow in meadows. The asparagus soup is a delicious example of this and that you can taste in restaurants in the area.

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