Baños+de+Encina


 * Map of Baños de Encina

Altitude:** 425 m
 * Population:** 2715 inhabitants
 * Distance:** 139,4 Km
 * More information:** http://www.bdelaencina.com/monumentos.htm

__Fiesta de los esclavos__: Celebrated during September. __Feria y Fiestas__: Celebrated during the second week in May. __La Candalaria__: Celebrated on the second of February with neighbors within neighborhoods. It is often celebrated with wine and dancing. __Los Santos__: It is undoubtedly one of the holidays with more rooting in Baths. In the beginning it was celebrated because the bells of teh Church of San Mateo were ringing incessantly and called teh faithful to celebrate the Day of the Saints. The women would put flowers on the graves of loved ones who are deceased and then come to church. The night was for enjoying the compay of friends and family. __Fair and feast of Cristo del Llano and Virgen de la Encina__, celebrated the second Sunday in May. __Feast of the Slaves__, celebrated 20 and 21 September. __Feast of the Emigrant__, celebrated 15 August
 * Festivals:**

Moorish Castle, Around the village cave paintings and Bronze Age artefacts have been discovered, along with Iberian and Roman remains. Cristo del Llano __Town Hall Neolitic cave paintings__: These have been found in caves close to the city. __Church of San Mateo__ 15th to 17th centuries. Combines various styles
 * Monuments:**

The food of Baños de Encina is largely based on the resources of the soil and agriculture. Meals were based around working in the fields. The most valued plates are related properly to the hunting: deer, wild boar or fallow deer in stew or pickled pork, or mountain beans.
 * Food:**

Croutons. Salmorejo. Ajoblanco (white garlic soup). Cucharro Baños' style. Sobas. Mountain style beans. Marinated wild boar. Marinated partridge. Rabbit in sauce. Rabbit with thyme. Rabbit al jarón. Game Baños' style. Asparagus with sauce. Game stews.

The oldest known settlement dates from the Neolithic. Cave paintings have been found to the north of its district. Mining of copper and bronze starts in the second millennium before Christ. This mining attracted the Greek and Phoenician civilizations. The town appears to have its origins in the greek-spanish settlement Ebassiocey. During Roman times, more precisely in Imperial times, work began in the silver mines but declined at the end of the Imperial period. We can find evidence of this mining past in El Centenillo, a hamlet of Baños de la Encina. Mining of copper and bronze starts in the second millennium before Christ. This mining attracted the Greek and Phoenician civilizations. The town appears to have its origins in the greek-spanish settlement Ebassiocey. During Roman times, more precisely in Imperial times, work began in the silver mines but declined at the end of the Imperial period. We can find evidence of this mining past in El Centenillo, a hamlet of Baños de la Encina. In the al-Andalus period, the fortress was built by order of Alhakem II and was finished in 968. The Christian re-conquest was first carried out by King Alfonso VII in 1147. It then passed back and forth from Arab to Christian hands until 1225 when it was finally conquered by King Fernando III. It formed part of Baeza until 1246. In the 15th century, it was the scene of battles between the Condestable Iranzo and the Masters of the Calatrava and Santiago Orders, which reflected the conflict between the feudal lords and the modern state. || The village gains new importance with the intensification of agriculture and stockbreeding in the late 17th and early 18th century. From the second half of the 18th century, a series of events follow which would deteriorate the economy of the village. First, in 1767 the village loses some territory with the creation of Guarromán, Carboneros, La Carolina y Santa Elena, within the Plan of New Villages in Sierra Morena. Finally, Mendizabal's Disentailment in 1835 and the Civil, Or Madoz's, Disentailment in 1855 put a definitive end to the Common Good. It was declared a Historic Artistic Site in 1969.
 * History:**
 * The oldest known settlement dates from the Neolithic. Cave paintings have been found to the north of its district.

Benito de Baños. García Delgado, canon. Francisco Tirado de Cuenca. Bernardo Poblaciones Dávalos, abbot and bishop. Juan Salido, military man. Luis José Rentero Soriano, military man.
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