BAENA, CÓRDOBA, A GUARANTEE OF QUALITY GASTRONOMY, ARCHAEOLOGY + CULTURE few weeks ago I received an email from City Hall of
Baena, Córdoba
, inviting me to a cultural visit to the city. It was a fam trip
where 15 journalists and bloggers from all over Spain would have a tourist experience in Baena and then share with our readers. I was thrilled, because you know what traveler I am, and because I thought it was a very successful initiative and a current and modern vision of the importance of social networks and those who work in them.
In fact, since the first visit we made to the Museum
Olive Oil and , 3G mobile phones, iphone and / or ipod not stopped coming in
twitter facebook ro, for Not to mention the constant use of the cameras, of course. The Museum is an old mill that is collected in its two most important aspects of olive oil. I assure you that the olive oil
Baena is a kind of liquid gold for the senses. Its color and taste are top quality.
So much so, that the Internet is sold as a product made in Spain
besides rich have a very healthy properties. And I know because I browsing the web I soon find myself with the web that I put down on it marketed a French company, more specifically in Paris, but I do not put the address to avoid giving free publicity to the company. Oil if you want you can ask
Baena www.museoaceite.com how.
Del Museo del Olivar and oil went to
Torreparedones , an archaeological park that is 22 km. Baena. By the way, Antonio Zafra www.adegua.com
technician (Association for Development of Countryside East Guadajoz Córdoba) that manages the blog
http://oleopolis.wordpress.com was telling us the origins of the area which, thanks to archaeological excavations, has been uncovering its secrets closely guarded for years.
And in this settlement that was founded in BC s.II further developed life 3,500 years in an unnamed city but the Researchers want to frame in the colony
Pliny mentioned as Virtus Ituci
lulia . Imagine the magic that is stepping on the stones, listening to the silence that whispers secrets in every corner of the road. Much respect and admiration awakened by such a wilderness walk where you'll find snippets of history. But first you have to enter the access point to the old city through the Eastern Gate
rebuilt you see above.
After losing a first breath and leave behind the door and walls of 600 BC must be raised to meet the
Sanctuary. This was where the devotees came in search of healing powers for their ills and their loved ones. The goddess
Caelestis awaited them within a sacred column still stands inside the temple rebuilt (the original is in the Museum of Baena) available to answer your prayers and receive the votive offerings in gratitude.
Down, the so-called ex-votos to the faithful, grateful for the response of the goddess, donated to the temple and the originals are preserved in the Municipal Museum
.
we go to the Shrine
Forum and despite the rain, humidity covered us from time to when the group progressed. Sometimes with the umbrella closed on her arm, not taking care of the architect responsible for the smooth progress of works. Interest in the site exceeded the annoying rain.
And with good reason as is given in Torreparedones
t hird case markings on pavement that was known as the Roman province of Hispania , the other two cases are in Sagunto (I have a login yet up this city) and Segovia . The forum or meeting place came to be over time in political, which led to the creation of civilian buildings, administrative, economic and temples.
architectural work in the City Council has funded Torreparedones Baena, has found the head of the Emperor Claudius , first century AD and this is the fifth representative of the emperor who appears in Spain and in this case also, in a of the larger forums of those located in the former Roman province of Hispania, since it has almost 700 m2. Below is the part of the forum in which registration has been discovered, with the name of local political leadership who paid for the paving of the public square during the time of Emperor Augustus . is according to the inscription of Marcus Junius Marcelo , Gallery of the tribe, whose name is embedded with bronze letters on the pavement in response to the monetary donation. Forum Medieval Castle passed to
that just a week before our visit, due to heavy rains and bad condition, came off the side of the tower. He has not had time to intervene the Andalusian In the reconstruction before the accident so now have more slaughter.
And before we go to Torreparedones some of us, the more daring (not me) dropped to a tomb that only a few days ago had been discovered. So what are you going to know in
scoop. In the picture below you can see the gaps in the wall where niches were placed the cremated remains and the front stairs that gave access to the burial area.
Another Baena wonders of gastronomy is its
. And I spoke before his precious oil olive which are cooked and seasoned delicacies such as premium quality tomato planted in their fields and had lunch in the Lodge restaurant
Rural Route of the Caliphate. Cod, homemade cakes, the tail of a bull and even the bread had a flavor that dignify this agricultural area, centered on the cultivation of cereal, olives and vines. Its cuisine is world renowned for the Designation of Origin
of oil called "Baena", and by the Denomination of Origin Montilla-Moriles
they belong to their wines.
Baena is a city full of surprises on their streets. Geraniums hanging from white walls, palm trees, churches, spectacular views where the olive green tides up whistling in the wind. Below, the
Convent Church of Madre de Dios of 1510, compared to
Castle where he was held
Boabdil before the city ceased to be an Arab.
Baena from the Arabic
Bayyana , which is the transcription of the name of one of the many Roman villas. After losing power in the nineteenth century, the castle is in the process of recovery thanks to the city of Baena is determined to raise a few ashes, which met before ten towers, some of them even habitable.
And those views, they are the ecstasy of the visitor. Do not miss this feast for the senses. Eyes open to see the greatness of this land, the skin bristling friend whose sound the wind dance through the ears. And the mind flies to episodes of past glories ...
Del Castillo went to the last stop of our trip,
Municipal Historical Museum, located in the Casa de la Tercia, near the Town Hall, where lie the historic and heritage witnesses Baena from its beginnings in the Paleolithic.
There was interviewed by a couple of TV and radio. My first opportunity to express my views on the
fam trip on the beautiful Baena.
Outfit: Zara jacket, blazer, denim skirt, T-Handle;
Uterqüe handkerchief and rings, pendant Mango;
After the interviews, a tour of the new rooms released the museum in which to date have cataloged nearly 200 sites of archaeological interest, most notably places like Torreparedones, Cortijo de Izcar, Hill of the mills, and Cerro Torre Minguillar Morana.
In almost all these sites have been conducted archaeological excavations, the most recent Torreparedones by a team of archaeologists who come from the Universities of Córdoba
, the Complutense of Madrid
and the Oxford .
From here I want to thank the City Council
Baena and Development Partnership for Eastern Countryside Córdoba Guadajoz for this opportunity to know and enjoy this part of Andalusia that I recommend as a holiday destination
and which I will have to continue hearing the temples, plazas and streets of their Almedina that make it unique and unrepeatable.
F Photos: D avid S Anchez N Nunez
