Bormujos

Bormujos is a Spanish municipality in the province of Seville, Andalusia. It is located about 7 km from the capital of the province and has 12.2 km².

Location

Spartains	Gines	Castilleja de la Cuesta
Bollullos de la Mitación		Tomares
	Mairena del Aljarafe

Toponymy

The authors still do not agree on the origin of the town's name. According to García de Diego, this name may come from the Latin "Mormolium" (tomorrow). But it is also equally likely that it comes from the name given to a Muslim farmhouse, "Boromuj". There are still vestiges from this period, such as those found in the Valencinilla del Hoyo hacienda. The first reference to the Bormujos farmhouse is provided by medieval Christian documentation, in 1253, through the words Mormuios and Mormoios, Antequera Luengo defending its Arabic root: Borg -muzn or Borg-muhur. In this sense, the place name has not been established until modern times, with variants, so that even at the end of the 18th century the town was also known as Mormujos, a late medieval survival. Only in the space of two years (1787-1788) three variants appear: Mormujos, Borbujos and a mixture of both, Bormujos, which prospered as a product of the dissimilation of nasals..

History

The Guadalquivir valley was conquered by Ferdinand III in the 13th century. In the distribution signed by his son, Alfonso X, this town appears with the name of Mormojos or Mormujos. It was granted on September 15, 1253, together with the farmhouses of Mairena, Paterna, Alcaudín, Malharomata and Albarat, to "doscientos cavalleros fisjosdalgo", apart from another series of privileges and properties, for good service that they lent in the Reconquista.

This is how the concessions read:

Dióles Mormojos, which is the term of Aznalfarache, in which has thirty thousand feet of olive and figueral and by measure of land six hundred sixty arançadas [...] and doles in that it holds of the Mayrena heir, e Paterna Talaudín e Machar Lomar e Albalat, with their houses and with their mills, and with all the heirs that they send, with all their entrances and belongings

Shortly thereafter, the town became the property of the Seville City Council until the end of the XVII century or beginning of the XVIII century. At that time it passed into the hands of the counts of Olivares (of the Guzmán house). This would last until the abolition of manors in the early 19th century. Since then it was established as an independent municipality.

In 1999, the first private university campus in Andalusia was inaugurated in the town. It was designed as a branch of the CEU San Pablo university in Madrid.

Demographics

Throughout the 2000s the population doubled, from 8,223 in 1999 to 16,548 in 2007. The following graph shows the evolution in the last twenty years:

Demographic evolution graph of Bormujos between the year 2000 and 2021

Source: Institute of Statistics and Cartography of Andalusia

Church of the Incarnation

Town Hall of Bormujos, in the Plaza de Andalucía of the town.

This is a building from the Late Middle Ages that was renovated between 1678 and 1681 by Antonio Rodríguez and Francisco Romero. The main portal and the one on the left side were decorated between 1778 and 1779 and are probably the work of Pedro de Silva.

It is a rectangular building with three naves. The vaults of the naves are supported by semicircular arches supported by columns. The baptismal chapel is located in the left nave, next to the main entrance. At the end of the temple, attached to the right nave, there is a square building attached to it, which is the Tabernacle chapel.

The main altarpiece dates from 1770. It is decorated with rocaille themes and flanking its central part there are two fluted columns. In the central part there is a large chapel with a sculptural group of the Annunciation of the angel Gabriel the Virgin and above it there is another smaller chapel with a crucified from the century XVIII.

Brotherhood of the True Cross

There is news of its foundation in 1634. In 1687 it merged with the sacramental brotherhood of its parish. Later it disappeared and was refounded in the early 1990s. The Virgen de los Dolores is also the owner. Processions on Holy Wednesday.

Cross of forging with two lighthouses in the Plaza de la Cruz de la resort.

Monastery of Santa María la Real

On the outskirts there is a Dominican monastery built in 1976. In its chapel it houses numerous old pieces from three merged convents: Santa María de Gracia, Santa María de los Reyes and Santa María la Real de Seville. It has a choir with geometric decoration from the mid-XVIIth century century. On the wall is a giltwood tabernacle from the second half of the XVI century. On the left is a Virgin of the Rosary from the 18th century century and on the right side is a life-size Crucified from the XVI. It also houses an image of Santo Domingo from the 18th century century. Also noteworthy is a canvas of Saint Teresa from the XVII century.

In the upper part of the monastery there is a room with various pieces of artistic value, such as a Juan Bautista by Juan de Mesa, a Pietà by Cristóbal Ramos, a Saint Michael the Archangel from the second half of the century XVIII and a mid-century Madrid school painting of the Immaculate Conception XVIII.

Finances

As in many other towns, and even on the outskirts of many cities, there are examples of Andalusian rural architecture. The Hacienda de Belén is located where the origin of the town could have been. It is a building of rural Andalusian architecture that today has municipal uses. The Hacienda del Cristo de la Mata is located on the outskirts. Formerly there was a Muslim farmhouse there. The current farmhouse dates from the XVII century. Originally it was called Hacienda de la Mata del Almíjar. There are three other haciendas, although in a poor state of conservation: La Peregrina, Marchalomar and Valencinilla del Hoyo.

Economy

There are 46 ha of arable crops, of which 20 ha are wheat and 2 ha are oats. There are 447 ha in woody crops, of which 408 ha are table olive groves. To the south of the town is the Almargen industrial estate and to the north the Aceitunillo industrial estate.

Featured Characters

Juan Diego (actor).