The origins of the original core of the city date back to the eighth century a. C., and were on an island in the Guadalquivir, on the current street Cuesta del Rosario.
Archaeological excavations conducted in 2009 at the Real Alcázar dating in the eighth century BC the remains found.
The Indians called Spal or Ispal to this town, which is crossed Turdetani influences (the Roman name given to the indigenous people of Valle del Guadalquivir), tartésicos (the Greek name given to indigenous kingdom that would control the area), Phoenician(settlers from Phoenicia), and Carthaginian (those from Carthage, North African colony founded by the Phoenicians) .
The original Seville was influenced by Phoenician traders, culturally enriched and developed with input them peaceful. This commercial colonization changed drastically from the prominence achieved by the Carthaginians after the fall of the Phoenician cities before the Persian Empire (sixth century BC). This new phase of colonization involving penetration Punic territory through military conquest, which the Greek sources later interpreted as the destruction of Tartessos after a death struggle with Carthage, affecting Sevilla de la Cuesta del Rosario, being in the course of various battles when the city fell, and assuming the time to Tartessian in Seville.
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