1. ^ tags -->| population_total = 16253 | population_as_of = 2009| population_demonym = Baezanos| population_note =| population_density_km2 = auto| timezone = CET| utc_offset = +1| timezone_DST = CEST| utc_offset_DST = +2| postal_code_type = Postal code| postal_code = 23440| area_code_type = Dialing code| area_code =| leader_title = Mayor| leader_name = Leocadio Marín Rodríguez | leader_party = PSOE| website = {{official website|http://www.baeza.net}}| footnotes = {{Infobox UNESCO World Heritage Site| child = yes| part_of = Renaissance Monumental Ensembles of Úbeda and Baeza| criteria = {{UNESCO WHS type|(ii), (iv)}}(ii), (iv)| ID = 522rev-002| year = 2003| area = {{convert|4.8|ha|acre|abbr=on}}| buffer_zone = {{convert|176|ha|acre|abbr=on}}}}}}Baeza ({{IPA-es|baˈeθa}}), formerly also written as Baéza,{{sfnp|EB|1911}} is an Andalusian town in the province of Jaén in southern Spain. It lies perched on a cliff in the Loma de Úbeda, the range separating the Guadalquivir River to its south from the Guadalimar to its north. It is now principally famed for having some of the best-preserved examples of Italian Renaissance architecture in Spain. Along with Úbeda, it was added to UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites in 2003. The former Visigothic bishopric of Baeza remains a Latin Catholic titular see.== History ==The town stands at a high elevation about {{convert|3|mi|sp=us}} from the right bank of the Guadalquivir{{sfnp|EB|1878}} in the Loma de Úbeda.{{sfnp|EB|1911}} Under the Romans, the town was known as Beatia.{{sfnp|EB|1878}} Following its conquest by the Visigoths, Beatia was the seat of a bishopric of Baeza (viz.), which was suppressed after a period under Moorish rule.Baeza reached its greatest prosperity under Islamic rule, when it formed the capital of an effectively independent ?emirate and reached a population of around 50,000.{{sfnp|EB|1878}} Remnants of the Moors' fortifications include the town's Jaén and Úbeda gates and the Arch of Baeza.{{sfnp|EB|1878}} The Christian diocese was reëstablished in 1127 or 1147{{citation needed|date=December 2015}} following the town's conquest by Alfonso VII of Castile, but it was then reconquered by the Muslims and its cathedral adopted as a mosque. The town never recovered from the destruction endured upon its conquest by Ferdinand III of Castile in 1227{{citation needed|date=December 2015}} or 1239.{{sfnp|EB|1878}} The diocese of Baeza was merged with Jaén in 1248{{sfnp|EB|1911}} or 1249,{{citation needed|date=December 2015}} but was later nominally restored as a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.{{citation |title=Annuario Pontificio |date=2013 |p=847 |language=la}}
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