The town of Estepa is situated 24km east of Osuna is famous for two very different reasons. It is best known for its biscuits known as polvorones and mantecados which are bakers for Christmas and which are eaten across this region of Andalucía.

Its other claim to fame is the mass suicide 2,200 years ago, when in 208 BCE Roman invaders found that the entire population of what was then a small but important outpost of Carthage had torched their homes and killed themselves rather than be overrun by the Romans.