Carmo (Carmona)

First human traces in the region of Carmona are more than half a million years old. At this time hunters and collectors pitched their tents at different places of the river bank.

In the copper time, or rather copper using Neolithic period (end of Neolithic period until 3rd millennium BC), the high plateau of Carmona was settled for the first time. From the year 1800 BC the population became finally resident.

At the time of the tartessian culture (from 1000 BC) the region had a time of prosperity. There was intercultural exchange between the domestics and the colonizers, particularly the Phoenicians. Between the 10th and 9th century the huts were round, of loam on a base of stone. From the 8th century a fix population heart is presumed in the north of the present city in the present quarter San Bas. Later the inhabited field was expanded against the south.

Due to fortifications constructions of the Carthaginian is presumed, that here was an important base. The Romans moved the town centre against the south, approximately into the middle of the high plateau. The town area was extended to the south and east. The city had an own mint right at this time.

After the 3rd century the city had a time of crisis. The information about the late-empire is however sparse.

Only a column with the inscription of a calendar is preserved of the Visigoths. It was reused for the construction of a mosque.

Today still few rests of the roman time are visible. Best known is he necropolis with graves from the 1st and 2nd century AD. For the most part the graves were subterranean chambers. Stand out do however the so-called elephant tomb and the tomb of the Sevilla.

In front of the necropolis is visible the amphitheater. On the city gate Puerta de Sevilla is furthermore the rest of a roman temple construction visible. In the northeast of the city is preserved a roman bridge.

The necropolis had in the year 2004 following business hours:

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