Viewpoint of the Camino de la Santa

Not verified.

This viewpoint is located on the border between El Viso and Mairena. (Next to the Santa Lucía sports pavilion).

At its end was located the Stone of the Rooster. Its current location is the traffic circle where the avenues of Andalucía and Piedra del Gallo, and the streets Quevedo, Cañalizo and Santa Lucía converge. He welcomes the visueños who are going to celebrate the festivities of La Cruz at the fairgrounds of La Tablá and is a witness to the events of the Parque de La Muela. It was moved to its present location in 1989.

Its original name was Peña del Águila, whose first references date back to the demarcation of the municipality of El Viso on October 16, 1444. In short, this stone, located in the alcor, served as a natural boundary marker to delimit the boundaries of Mairena and El Viso.

Nearby, the Necropolis of Santa Lucía was located, associated with the city of Tablá.

According to the data sheet of the Catalog of Sites (Junta de Andalucía): “it is a necropolis of burial mounds known and described by Cañal and Bonsor. Cañal says that 5 burial mounds were excavated, leaving 10 or 12 to be excavated. Bonsor speaks of the existence of 14 burial mounds of varying heights, between 1.50 and 6 meters. The necropolis was the object of excavations first by the owner and then by Bonsor. Bonsor excavated a 2.35 m high mound with an incineration pit, 0.80 m deep, full of ashes and burnt objects nearby. The trousseau was composed of a small ivory pot, four combs and three ivory plates decorated with friezes of animals, palms and lotus flowers; two engraved shells and an ostrich egg with jagged edges and decorated with straight lines and zig-zag engraved and painted in red. Cañal describes another burial a little farther away, it was of inhumation with remains of a man lying, the head on a circular stone. It is a tumular necropolis where we observe on the basis of the descriptions the coexistence, we do not know if coetaneous or not, of different funeral rites that can be placed in the orientalizing moment. The necropolis is related to the habitat of the Tablada Table. On the surface there are no reliefs assignable to tumuli, but this does not indicate that the site is exhausted”.