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Pilas, capital mundial de la aceituna de mesa

Pilas, Aljarafe, Seville

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Pilas, capital mundial de la aceituna de mesa

Village · Pilas, Aljarafe, Seville

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Municipality of 14,222 inhabitants (2025) and 45.94 km², at 63 m altitude (ranging from 35 to 137 m). Mentioned by Pliny the Elder as 'Pilias,' its town center developed around an 11th-century Almohad qubba; in 1502 the first documented shipment of soap to America left from Seville. In the 17th century, under the jurisdiction of the Order of Santiago, the painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo married a woman from Pilas. In the 1990s it was promoted as the 'World Capital of the Table Olive,' for its manzanilla, gordal, and verdial varieties.

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