EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BAENA
The town sits on the side of a hill, forming a network of narrow, winding streets, dotted by traditional houses and ancestral homes. A landscape of olive orchards and cereal fields surrounds it.The town is also well-known for its Semana Santa celebrations when rival teams of hundreds of drummers compete in the noise they can make, creating the ear-splitting sound of up to 2,000 drums being struck simultaneously. To find out more about this remarkable ritual, visit the Museo de Semana Santa, housed in the same building as the archaeological museum.
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History
Its foundation is attributed to the tribe of the túrdulos, who called it Martola, in the sixth century B.C. Garcia y Bellido distinguishes it with the...
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Baena is a town of Andalucia in the area of Córdoba in southern Spain. It is beautifully arranged close to the river Marbella on the incline of a slop...
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The atmosphere in Baena is warm and mild. There is more precipitation in the winter than in the mid-year in Baena. As indicated by Köppen and Geiger, ...
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