Seville is a Spanish city located to the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula, capital of Andalusia and the province homónima.
Seville is the fourth city of Spain and fourth metropolitan area by number of inhabitants. Account with 704,154 inhabitants and 1.317.098 in the metropolitan area, 1.813.908 in the total of the province (2005 data). It is the main artistic, cultural, financial, economic and social center of the south of Spain and one of most important of the south of Europe.
It is in addition an important industrial center to new technologies and aeronautics (factory of EADS-CASA established in the airport). Seville and its population centers satellites do not constitute a true metropolitan area but an urban sprawl, because it lacks a coordination agency in which they are represented all the organisms with metropolitan competitions, such as the city councils. Although there are joint organs that are in charge of the metropolitan management of certain sectorial activities (waters, remainders, et cetera), cannot therefore be spoken of metropolitan area in his stricter sense. Of doubtless tourist interest, thanks to numerous monuments, seats, gardens, churches, et cetera.
It conserves the greater historical-artistic helmet of Europe. Of between their more famous monuments, the Giralda (old alminar of the greater mosque, today bell tower of the Cathedral) and the Tower of Gold both more are known. Of their districts, Triana, the Macarena, Santa Cruz, the Remedies, Heliópolis and Nervión is most famous.
The Giralda, the Cathedral, the Palace, the File of Indians and its surroundings were declared Patrimony of the Humanity by UNESCO in 1987. To only 20 m.s on the level of the sea, in the heat of Fertile valley and Countryside of the Guadalquivir river, and to borders of this one, conform an urban sprawl that extends towards the Aljarafe, the Salt marshes, the National Park of Doñana, the North Mountain range and the South Mountain range.