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Gelves, entre Tartessos y el Guadalquivir

Gelves, Comarca Metropolitana de Sevilla, Seville

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Gelves, entre Tartessos y el Guadalquivir

Village · Gelves, Comarca Metropolitana de Sevilla, Seville

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Municipality of 10,548 inhabitants (2025) and 8.29 km², at 26 m altitude on the Guadalquivir, 3.5 km from Seville. With settlement documented since the Paleolithic and a presence within the Tartessian sphere, it was reconquered in 1247 by Pelayo Pérez Correa, master of the Order of Santiago. In 1529 the county of Gelves was created, which brought prosperity to the town in the 18th century until the count moved his residence to the royal court in 1766. Gelves is mentioned in Lazarillo de Tormes, in Guzmán de Alfarache (1599), and in Blood and Sand (1908).

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