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").

Baix Penedès
Comarca
Banner Coat airms
Kintra	Spain
Autonomous commonty	Catalonie
Province	Tarragona
Caipital	El Vendrell
Municipalities	Leet Albinyana, L'Arboç, Banyeres del Penedès, Bellvei, La Bisbal del Penedès, Bonastre, Calafell, Cunit, Llorenç del Penedès, Masllorenç, El Montmell, Sant Jaume dels Domenys, Santa Oliva, El Vendrell
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

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