Baix Penedès () is a comarca in Catalonia,

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. The area has been settled since the times of the

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, with ancient ruins remaining in Banyeres at ''Can Canyís'', in the capital

El Vendrell El Vendrell () is a town located in the province of Tarragona, Catalonia, in the wine-growing region of Penedès. It is wedged between the Mediterranean and the coastal range. El Vendrell is the capital of the Baix Penedès '' comarca'' an ...

at the village of ''Guàrdies'' and in

Calafell Calafell () is a village in the province of Tarragona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain. Tourism The town is located at the heart of the Baix Penedès region; the gateway to the Costa Daurada, its economy depends heavily on tourism. Th ...

at the villages of ''Toixoneres'' and ''la Ciutadella'' ("The Citadel").

Municipalities

Castellers

Baix Penedès has one of the longest-lived traditions of

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s in Catalonia. (Castellers practice the traditional Catalan art/sport of making

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s.) The comarcal capital, el Vendrell, has a monument dedicated to castellers. The most important competitions of Castellers in the comarca occur each year as part of the August festival in honor of the

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at Bisbal and on the fourth Sunday of August at L'Arboç, with castellers from all over Catalonia.

People from Baix Penedès

Among the most important historical figures from Baix Penedès are: *

Àngel Guimerà Àngel Guimerà y Jorge (6 May 1845 or 6 May 1847 or 1849 – 18 July 1924), known also as Ángel Guimerá, was a Spanish Nobel-nominated writer in the Catalan language. His work is known for bringing together under romantic aspects the main el ...

(1845–1924): writer. Guimerà was originally from the Canary Islands, but his mother was from el Vendrell, and he eventually settled there in his ancestral home, ''cal Guimerà''. * Pablo Casals (1876–1973): cellist and composer. The house-museum ''vila Casals'' is at Sant Salvador, as is a concert hall, lAuditori Pau Casals''. * Aureli Maria Escarré (1908–1968): abbot of Montserrat. Since 1978, there has been a monument to him in his home village of l'Arboç, where his ancestral home is on the main street. *

Andreu Nin Andreu Nin Pérez (4 February 1892 – 20 June 1937) was a Spanish communist politician, translator and publicist. In 1937, Nin and the rest of the POUM leadership were arrested by the Moscow-oriented government of the Second Spanish Republi ...

(1892–1937) dissident Communist revolutionary in the

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)

References

External links

Official comarcal web site (in Catalan)Map, on the site of the Generalitat de Catalunya
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