Cortes de Baza is a municipality located in the
province of Granada, Spain. According to the Instituto de Estadistica y Cartografia de Andalucia (2020
, the village has a population of 1844 inhabitants.
Geography
Cortes de Baza is located in the north of the
Province of Granada along the eastern banks of the Rio Castril.
History
It has been the site of human settlement since prehistoric times. It has been settled by Romans, Moors and later by the Christians after the
Reconquista
The ' (Spanish, Portuguese and Galician for "reconquest") is a historiographical construction describing the 781-year period in the history of the Iberian Peninsula between the Umayyad conquest of Hispania in 711 and the fall of the Nasrid ...
of
Andalucia
Andalusia (, ; es, Andalucía ) is the southernmost autonomous community in Peninsular Spain. It is the most populous and the second-largest autonomous community in the country. It is officially recognised as a "historical nationality". The ...
in the fifteenth century.
Buildings
Cortes de Baza has a sixteenth-century church built in the
Mudéjar
Mudéjar ( , also , , ca, mudèjar , ; from ar, مدجن, mudajjan, subjugated; tamed; domesticated) refers to the group of Muslims who remained in Iberia in the late medieval period despite the Christian reconquest. It is also a term for ...
style constructed by Moorish Craftsmen.
Economy
The town is very rural with Farming and Poplar tree plantations covering a wide area, tourism is also becoming a main source of income. The town is very typical of this area.
References
Municipalities in the Province of Granada
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