Carmona

It sits about 30 kilometres from Seville on a hill above the Corbones valley, and has been lived in for thousands of years. You enter through the Puerta de Sevilla, a Roman and Moorish fortress gate with a tower you can visit, and inside are white streets, convents and palaces.

At the top, King Peter I's castle is now a parador with a terrace over the plain. On the outskirts, the Roman necropolis keeps hundreds of rock-cut tombs, such as those of Servilia and of the Elephant.