Baix Penedès
Baix Penedès | |
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| Kintra |  Spain |
| Autonomous commonty |  Catalonie |
| Province | Tarragona |
| Caipital | El Vendrell |
| Municipalities | |
| Area | |
| • Total | 295.5 km2 (114.1 sq mi) |
| Population (2001) | |
| • Total | 61,256 |
| • Density | 210/km2 (540/sq mi) |
| Demonym(s) | |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Lairgest municipality | El Vendrell |
Baix Penedès is a comarca in Catalonie, Spain. The aurie haes been settled syne the times o the Iberies, wi auncient ruins remainin in Banyeres at Can Canyís, in the caipital el Vendrell at the veelage o Guàrdies an in Calafell at the veelages o Toixoneres an la Ciutadella ("The Citadel").
Municipalities
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Populations as o 2001.
- Albinyana - pop. 1780
- L'Arboç - pop. 3977
- Banyeres del Penedès - pop. 1862
- Bellvei - pop. 1532
- La Bisbal del Penedès - pop. 2349
- Bonastre - pop. 424
- Calafell - pop. 15883
- Cunit - pop. 7339
- Llorenç del Penedès - pop. 1821
- Masllorenç - pop. 453
- El Montmell - pop. 784
- Sant Jaume dels Domenys - pop. 1637
- Santa Oliva - pop. 2422
- El Vendrell - pop. 26,820
Gastronomy
[eedit | eedit soorce]Teepical dishes o this region include:
- el xató (a dish wi vegetables)
- la coca de verdures (cake o vegetables)
- el civet de senglar (a wey o ceukin wild boar)
- el bull de tonyina (a teep o sausage o tuna)
- l'arròs a banda (rice ceukit in fish an shellfish stock)
Desserts include:
- els bufats (?)
- les orelletes (?)
Castellers
[eedit | eedit soorce]Baix Penedès haes ane o the langest-livit tradeetions o castellers in Catalonie. (Castellers practice the tradeetional Catalan art/sport o makin human pyramids.) The comarcal caipital, el Vendrell, haes a monument dedicatit tae castellers.
Present-day teams:
- els Nens del Vendrell (foondit 1926)
- la Colla Nova
- els minyons de l'Arboç
The maist important competeetions o Castellers in the comarca occur each year as pairt o the August festival in honor o the Virgin Mary at Bisbal an on the fowert Sunday o August at l'Arboç del Penedès, wi castellers frae aw ower Catalonie.
Fowk frae Baix Penedès
[eedit | eedit soorce]Amang the maist important historical figurs frae Baix Penedès are:
- Àngel Guimerà (1845–1924): writer. Guimerà wis oreeginally frae the Canary Islands, but his mither wis frae el Vendrell, an he eventually settled thare in his ancestral hame, cal Guimerà.
- Pablo Casals (1876–1973): cellist an componer. The hoose-museum vila Casals is at Sant Salvador, as is a concert haw, l’Auditori Pau Casals.
- Aureli Maria Escarré (1908–1968): abbot o Montserrat. Syne 1978, thare haes been a monument tae him in his hame veelage o l'Arboç, whaur his ancestral hame is on the main street.
- Andreu Nin (1892–1937) dissident Communist revolutionar in the Spainyie Ceevil War).