Osuna

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Osuna (Spanish pronunciation: [oˈsuna]) is a town and municipality in the province of Seville, southern Spain, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. As of 2009, it has a population of c. 17,800. It is the location of the Andalusian Social Economy School. Osuna is built on a hill, overlooking the fertile plain watered by the Salado, a sub-tributary of the Guadalquivir.

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History

The battle of Munda, the last battle won by Julius Caesar in person, was probably fought outside Osuna, halfway to Écija near La Lantejuela.

Osuna was taken from the Almohads in 1239, and given by Alphonso X

to the Order of Calatrava in 1264. Don Pedro Girón appropriated it to himself in 1445. One of his descendants, Don Pedro Téllez, was the first holder of the title duke of Osuna, conferred on him by Philip II in 1562.

Among famous people associated with Osuna is Juan de Ayala, the commander of the first European ship to enter the San Francisco Bay in California.

The origin of Osuna dates back to about three thousand years ago, when the Turdetans inhabited the city that would later be known as Urso. In the year 44-43 BC. C., fulfilling a previous forecast by Julius Caesar, it was refounded by Mark Antony with veterans of the last civil wars, giving it the status of a colony of Roman citizens and the official name of Colonia Genetiva Iulia, also documented in some inscriptions. Its founding colonial law is preserved, although incomplete, an important bronze inscription on several tables, known as Lex Ursonensis (although the name "Urso" does not appear on it even once), which is kept in the National Archaeological Museum of Madrid. A century later, Pliny the Elder cites it as Colonia Genetiva Urbanorum Urso (NH, III.12).

During the period of Muslim domination it was called Uxuna, being conquered in 1239 by the Castilian armies of Ferdinand III of Castile. In 1264 it was handed over to the Order of Calatrava, which created the Encomienda of Osuna. Due to its strategic location, it became a crucial point for the defense of the border line with the Nasrid kingdom of Granada. In the 15th century, the knights of Calatrava ceded the city of Osuna to Pedro Téllez de Girón, whose descendants received the title of Dukes of Osuna during the reign of Philip II.

Osuna experienced its moment of greatest splendor in the mid-16th century with the figure of Juan Téllez Girón, IV Count of Ureña, born in Osuna around 1494. He is a character, halfway between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Over the course of thirty years he created the largest and most dazzling monumental complex of the Sevillian Renaissance in the city of Osuna, with the construction of thirteen churches and convents, a hospital, the University, the Collegiate Church and the Ducal Sepulchre, which made him the patron most important of his time.

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Rest of the year

January: Cabalgata de Reyes (5) · San Arcadio (12)
March: Semana Santa
May: Feria de Osuna
June: Velá de Fátima (10)
November: Mercado de la Fantasía (1)

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Famous people

•Javier López Rodriguez, futbolista español

•Francisco López Alfaro, futbolista español

•Alonso Lobo, compositor español del Renacimiento

•Juan de Ayala, explorador español

•Juan Carlos Campo Moreno, político, magistrado y jurista español

•Pedro Téllez-Girón y Velasco, virrey de Sicilia y Napoles, III duque de Osuna

Town hall

Alcaldía: Rosario Andújar Torrejón

Web oficial: http://www.osuna.es/

Town hall of Osuna

Alcaldía: Rosario Andújar Torrejón Web oficial: http://www.osuna.es/

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