5 Sights in Baeza, Spain (with Map and Images)

Baeza is a city and municipality of Spain belonging to the province of Jaén, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is part of the comarca of La Loma. The present name was established in Roman times as Vivatia, then Biatia by the Visigoths, Bayyasa by the Moors from the 8th century onwards; until it became Baeza.

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The current ruins of the Benavides chapel in the city of Baeza are the remains of the main chapel of the church of the convent of Friars Minor of San Francisco. It had been founded in 1538, according to agreement with the monastic community, as a funerary chapel of the Benavides lineage; its architecture was designed by Andrés de Vandelvira and Esteban Jamete is credited with the author of its decorative sculpture. The chapel was ruined at the beginning of the 19th century by an earthquake followed by disastrous storms and finally by the looting of Napoleon's troops. Sold, like the rest of the convent on the occasion of the Confiscation of Mendizábal, its space ended up being occupied by homes and shops that lasted until the seventies of the twentieth century when its site was freed again. Its current appearance is due to the works carried out in 1988, and in the words of Molina Hipólito:

Wikipedia: Ruinas de la Capilla de los Benavides (Baeza) (ES)

The Town Hall of Baeza is the main building of the passage of Cardinal Benavides or, according to traditional denomination, Prado de la Cárcel, which reveals its original function as the palace of the corregidor and prison of his justice. In front of it is the house where the poet Antonio Machado lived with his mother. It is part of the Renaissance monumental complex of Baeza, which together with that of Úbeda was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2003.

Wikipedia: Casa consistorial de Baeza (ES)

The castle of Jarafe, whose keep is a Christian work from the early fourteenth century, is located on the banks of the Torres River, in the gentle valley between the Caballo hill and Cerro Tosco, about four kilometres north of the Castle of Recena, within the municipality of Baeza, province of Jaén.

Wikipedia: Castillo de Jarafe (ES)

The church of Santa Cruz is a small church in Baeza, in the late-Romanesque style, relatively unusual in eastern Andalusia, built in the thirteenth century, after the conquest of the Upper Guadalquivir Valley by Ferdinand III.

Wikipedia: Iglesia de la Santa Cruz (Baeza) (ES)