Information about Estepa, Sevilla
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The municipality of Estepa is in the extreme south-east of the province of Seville. Its population was 12.397 inhabitants in 2007.
The town is located north of the Sierra del Becerro mountains.
Estepa is known for its production of Christmas sweets, principally mantecado, or traditional Spanish crumble cake. In fact, it possesses 30 shortcake dough factories. 15 other factories are associated in the entity Coexema A.I.E that deals basically with the exportation of products. All of them employ up to two thousand people, from September to December, 90% of whom are women, producing about 20 million kilos of Christmas sweets, not only the traditional ones mantecados, polvorones, etc., but also numerous specialties of high confectionery, that are growing more and more popular.
Around the mantecado industry has been arising other auxiliary industries; from Graphical Arts, mechanical construction of machinery for feeding, factories, cartonajes, transports, etc., several of them of great importance in the sector. There are also other industries of importance including industrial slaughter house, Limestone Stone, etc.
Tourism has also developed. Monuments and place: Iglesia de Santa María la Mayor de la Asunción (Church of Santa Maria the Greater of Asunción), the Convento de Santa Clara, and the Convento de San Francis (coconvent of San Francisco) are their more outstanding monuments, next to the Castle, on a Hill that is called the Balcony of Andalusia.
The town is located north of the Sierra del Becerro mountains.
Estepa is known for its production of Christmas sweets, principally mantecado, or traditional Spanish crumble cake. In fact, it possesses 30 shortcake dough factories. 15 other factories are associated in the entity Coexema A.I.E that deals basically with the exportation of products. All of them employ up to two thousand people, from September to December, 90% of whom are women, producing about 20 million kilos of Christmas sweets, not only the traditional ones mantecados, polvorones, etc., but also numerous specialties of high confectionery, that are growing more and more popular.
Around the mantecado industry has been arising other auxiliary industries; from Graphical Arts, mechanical construction of machinery for feeding, factories, cartonajes, transports, etc., several of them of great importance in the sector. There are also other industries of importance including industrial slaughter house, Limestone Stone, etc.
Tourism has also developed. Monuments and place: Iglesia de Santa María la Mayor de la Asunción (Church of Santa Maria the Greater of Asunción), the Convento de Santa Clara, and the Convento de San Francis (coconvent of San Francisco) are their more outstanding monuments, next to the Castle, on a Hill that is called the Balcony of Andalusia.
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