Baeza

Baeza, a handsome old town of Spain, in the province of Jaen, 9 miles from a station of its own name, this being 160 miles S. of Madrid. The Beatia of the Romans, and the seat of Moorish califs and kings, with 150,000 inhabitants, it never fairly recovered from its sack by the Castilians in 1228. Its principal buildings are the quondam university (1533) and the oratory of St Philip de Neri. Pop. 15,430.