LA ALMEDINA DE BAENA

INDEX

• Introduction: history of Baena

• Arch of Consolation• Dark arch• Marinalba Square• Palace Square

History of Baena• Although no hard evidence, the

current human occupation in the town of Baena must go back to the Paleolithic.. But it will be during the Age of Metal when the lands now occupied by the municipality were busy so clear, communities based their livelihood on agriculture grain farming and livestock

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• During the Roman era, the range of settlements or municipalities, if Torreparedones (name unknown), Izcar (Respublica Contribute Ipscencis) or Minguillar Hill (Municipium Flavium Iponobensis).

• . In the early Middle Ages the place name is found Bayyana. En el s. In the s. IX era un importante castillo que poco después se convertiría en la capital de la cora de Cabra. IX was a major castle soon became the capital of the cora de Cabra.

• During the early modern clergy experienced a significant increase with the installation of various religious orders in the Dominican convent of Madre de Dios, Franciscans and Dominicans. Después, se instalarían los jesuitas que desarrollaron un papel clave en el ámbito educativo. Then it would install the Jesuits who developed a key role in education.

• In the contemporary age, Baena suffer the consequences of the crisis of the reign of Charles IV and the subsequent French invasion. Puesto en fuga el ejército napoleónico, el 3 de octubre de 1812, tuvo lugar la proclamación de la Constitución conocida como “La Pepa”. Since fleeing Napoleon's army, on 3 October 1812, saw the proclamation of the constitution known as "Pepa".

DARK ARCH• Built in the IX century on Roman

remains, after the ransacking by Omar Ibn Hafsun, to the s settlement that then existed.Under the Almoravids and Almohads, the fortress was extended to have seven towers.The castle had two doors/large towers, the Arco Oscuro. The Arco Oscuro o del Cabildo tower has a room with Mudejar handiwork in which the first Townships were reunited.

ARCH OF CONSOLATION

• There are no reliable data on the date of construction of the walls of the Almedina, although some elements such as corner entries on the Arch of Consolation and appear Dark Arc Almoravids and Almohads work, respectively.

MARINALBA SQUARE

• The Almedina ("city par excellence" in Arabic) is the ighest part of the city. The streets are places that evoke times and places of the most typical Arab construction.

• It is Marinalba Square, which is accessed through the Arco de Santa Barbara, Visigoth cross symbol of Christianity, wrought in bronze, large-scale, which becomes the standard-bearer of civilization and culture of this city.

PALACE SQUARE

• The Palace Square, the heart of the medieval Arab Baena, which is chaired by one of the most representative symbols of the city, the Iberian Lion of Baena, bronze reproduction of the original found in the Archaeological Museum in Madrid