City Center Baeza

Baeza is a small town in Andalusia, the southernmost region of Spain. It has only 15,000 permanent inhabitants. Baeza, founded when the Romans expanded into the Iberian peninsula, is most famous for its fine Italian Renaissance architecture--especially as contrasted with other old Spanish towns, whose historical architecture mostly tends to be of the Northern gothic variety. One of the big attractions of the town, and its most magnificent example of Renaissance architecture, is the old University of Baeza. Now, summer classes affiliated with the University of Granada are held in the building. Another attraction is the Santa Maria Cathedral, and the Jabalquinto palace.