Carmona

We stayed overnight in a really pleasant town to the east of seville, Carmona. Turns out this is quite a well-off town, and has been from before roman times, a local civilisation known as Turdetani, with an economy based on olive oil, wine, wheat, and cattle. It was an important roman city, then visigoths, then Muslim , before the present day one. As a result there are roman remains everywhere, and the present town centre is built on top of the roman city. Just outside the old city walls is a huge roman necropolis with some outstanding tombs, and tomb offering goods.

Overall we really liked Carmona, it was a good place to wander around, a good discovery!Read more