Photos from Municipality Baeza

Municipality of Baeza is located in province of Jaen (autonomous region of Andalusia, Spain). It is situated on a cliff in the Loma de Baeza, a mountain range between the river Guadalquivir on the south and its tributary the Guadalimar on the north. Road distance to Madrid is 327, to Granada 132km and to Malaga 241km.

The town has existed since Roman times, when it was called Beatia, but it is chiefly known today as having many of the best-preserved examples of Italian Renaissance architecture in Spain.

After it was wrenched away from the Moors in 1227, Baeza became a frontier town between the Christian and Moorish worlds, and a diehard symbol
of the Catholic ambition to occupy all of Iberia.

Today, Baeza is tiny, compact and provincial small town.