Arahal
Arahal is a municipality in Seville, Andalusia, Spain. It is situated on the southeast of Seville. This town is also known as "El Arahal", being recognized by this name until 1981. Ar-rahal is an Arabic term, meaning a place in the path where stopping to rest.
There are several monuments in Arahal, most of them churches, including:
* Nta.Sra. de la Victoria church. Temple finished in 1551 and the tower late XVII
* Vera-Cruz church. 1602
* Casa Peralta. 1895
* Nta.Sra. del Rosario convent. 1608
* San Roque church (ex-convent). 1624
* Santo Cristo de la Misericordia church. 16th century
* Santa María Magdalena parish-church. It is in the Neoclassical style and is one of the biggest in the province. It was built in 1800 after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake destroyed the old one, the tower remains from the previous temple.
* San Antonio hermitage. 17th century.
There are several monuments in Arahal, most of them churches, including:
* Nta.Sra. de la Victoria church. Temple finished in 1551 and the tower late XVII
* Vera-Cruz church. 1602
* Casa Peralta. 1895
* Nta.Sra. del Rosario convent. 1608
* San Roque church (ex-convent). 1624
* Santo Cristo de la Misericordia church. 16th century
* Santa María Magdalena parish-church. It is in the Neoclassical style and is one of the biggest in the province. It was built in 1800 after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake destroyed the old one, the tower remains from the previous temple.
* San Antonio hermitage. 17th century.
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Anatomically modern humans first arrived in the Iberian Peninsula around 42,000 years ago. The ancient Iberian and Celtic tribes, along with other pre-Roman peoples, dwelled the territory maintaining contacts with foreign Mediterranean cultures. The Roman conquest and colonization of the peninsula (Hispania) ensued, bringing the Romanization of the population. Receding of Western Roman imperial authority ushered in the migration of different non-Roman peoples from Central and Northern Europe with the Visigoths as the dominant power in the peninsula by the fifth century. In the early eighth century, most of the peninsula was conquered by the Umayyad Caliphate, and during early Islamic rule, Al-Andalus became a dominant peninsular power centered in Córdoba. Several Christian kingdoms emerged in Northern Iberia, chief among them León, Castile, Aragon, Portugal, and Navarre made an intermittent southward military expansion, known as Reconquista, repelling the Islamic rule in Iberia, which culminated with the Christian seizure of the Emirate of Granada in 1492. Jews and Muslims were forced to choose between conversion to Catholicism or expulsion, and eventually the converts were expelled through different royal decrees.
Currency / Language
ISO | Currency | Symbol | Significant figures |
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EUR | Euro | € | 2 |
ISO | Language |
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EU | Basque language |
CA | Catalan language |
GL | Galician language |
OC | Occitan language |
ES | Spanish language |