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Carmona offers a trade in wine, olive oil, grain and cattle and the annual fair, which is held in April, affords an opportunity of observing the costumes and customs of southern Spain. The main entrance to the town is an old Moorish gateway and the gate on the road to Cordova is partly of Roman construction. Portions of the ancient college of San Teodomir are of Moorish architecture, and the tower of the church of San Pedro is an imitation of the Giralda at Seville. In 1881 a Roman necropolis was discovered close to the town, beside the Seville road. It contains rock-hewn sepulchral chambers, with niches for the cinerary urns, and occasionally with vestibules containing stone seats. In 1881 an amphitheatre, and another group of tombs, all belonging to the first four centuries A.D. were disinterred near the original necropolis, and a small museum is now filled with the mosaics, inscriptions, portrait-heads and other antiquities found here.
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