Located close to Guadalquivir, in the province of Jaén, Baeza offers to the curiosity of the visitor an exceptional heritage.
The history of this city, of more than 16.000 inhabitants, is particularly rich. It goes back indeed to the Bronze Age and numerous excavations carried out on its territory testify of its Iberian, Roman and Visigoth past.
Its strategic situation, at the crossing of natural important ways, made it an important fortified city during califal time and omeyyade occupation. Then renamed Bayyasa under Al' Andalus, walls were built and the urban structure of Baeza is set up gradually. During all the medieval period and the centuries of requonquista its position between Castille and Andalusia, gives it a great importance at the regional level.