Baix Penedès

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 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 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 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 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). Freemit airtins Official comarcal web site (in Catalan) Archived 2004-05-16 at the Wayback Machine Map, on the site of the Generalitat de Catalunya Archived 2004-06-02 at the Wayback Machine IDESCAT: statistical information about this comarca