Editing Baix Penedès

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| name                    = Baix Penedès
| settlement_type         = [[Comarques of Catalonia|Comarca]]
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| subdivision_type1       = [[Autonomous communities of Spain|Autonomous community]]
| subdivision_name1       = {{flag|Catalonia}}
| subdivision_type2       = [[Vegueria|Region]]
| subdivision_name2       = [[Penedès (division)|Penedès]]
| subdivision_type3       = [[Provinces of Spain|Province]]
| subdivision_name3       = [[Province of Tarragona|Tarragona]]
| seat_type               = [[Capital city|Capital]]
| seat                    = [[El Vendrell]]
| leader_title1           = Body
| leader_name1            = [[Comarcal council#Comarcal Council of Baix Penedès|Baix Penedès Comarcal Council]]
| leader_title2           = President
| leader_name2            = Ramon Ferré ([[Socialists' Party of Catalonia|PSC]])
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| p1                      = [[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]]
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| area_total_km2          =  296.4
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| population_total        = 100,262
| population_as_of        = 2014
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| blank_name_sec1         = [[List of municipalities of Spain|Largest municipality]]
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'''Baix Penedès''' ({{IPA|ca|ˈbaʃ pənəˈðɛs}}) is a [[Comarques of Catalonia|comarca]] in the [[Penedès (division)|Penedès]] region, in [[Catalonia]], [[Spain]]. The area has been settled since the times of the [[Iberians]], with ancient ruins remaining in [[Banyeres]] at ''Can Canyís'', at the village of ''Guàrdies'' and in [[Calafell]] at the villages of ''Toixoneres'' and ''la Ciutadella'' ("The Citadel"). The capital is [[El Vendrell]].

== Municipalities ==
[[File:Municipis del Baix Penedès.svg|left|300px]]
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Municipality
! Population{{Clear}}(2014)<ref name=idescat>{{cite web|url=http://www.idescat.cat/emex/|title=El municipi en xifres|publisher=Institut d'Estadística de Catalunya|accessdate=2015-05-25}}</ref>
! Area{{Clear}}km{{sup|2}}<ref name=idescat/>
|-
| [[Albinyana]] || align=right | 2,335 || align=right | 19.4
|-
| [[L'Arboç]] || align=right | 5,515 || align=right | 14.1
|-
| [[Banyeres del Penedès]] || align=right | 3,057 || align=right | 12.2
|-
| [[Bellvei]] || align=right | 2,174 || align=right | 8.3
|-
| [[La Bisbal del Penedès]] || align=right | 3,495 || align=right | 32.5
|-
| [[Bonastre]] || align=right | 622 || align=right | 25.0
|-
| [[Calafell]] || align=right | 24,333 || align=right | 20.4
|-
| [[Cunit]] || align=right | 11,989 || align=right | 9.7
|-
| [[Llorenç del Penedès]] || align=right | 2,306 || align=right | 4.6
|-
| [[Masllorenç]] || align=right | 519 || align=right | 6.6
|-
| [[El Montmell]] || align=right | 1,418 || align=right | 72.8
|-
| [[Sant Jaume dels Domenys]] || align=right | 2,493 || align=right | 24.4
|-
| [[Santa Oliva]] || align=right | 3,287 || align=right | 9.6
|-
| [[El Vendrell]] || align=right | 36,719 || align=right | 36.8
|-
| • Total: 14 || align=right | 100,262 || align=right | 296.4
|}

== Castellers ==
Baix Penedès has one of the longest-lived traditions of [[casteller]]s in Catalonia. (Castellers practice the traditional Catalan art/sport of making [[human pyramid]]s.) The comarcal capital, el Vendrell, has a monument dedicated to castellers.

The most important competitions of Castellers in the comarca occur each year as part of the August festival in honor of the [[Blessed Virgin Mary|Virgin Mary]] at Bisbal and on the fourth Sunday of August at [[L'Arboç]], with castellers from all over Catalonia.

== People from Baix Penedès ==
Among the most important historical figures from Baix Penedès are:

*[[Àngel Guimerà]] (1845–1924): writer. Guimerà was originally from the [[Canary Islands]], but his mother was from el Vendrell, and he eventually settled there in his ancestral home, ''cal Guimerà''.
*[[Pablo Casals]] (1876–1973): cellist and composer. The house-museum ''vila Casals'' is at Sant Salvador, as is a concert hall, l'''Auditori Pau Casals''.
*[[Aureli Maria Escarré]] (1908–1968): abbot of [[Montserrat (mountain)|Montserrat]]. Since 1978, there has been a monument to him in his home village of [[Arboç Del Penedès|l'Arboç]], where his ancestral home is on the main street.
*[[Andreu Nin]] (1892–1937) dissident Communist revolutionary in the [[Spanish Civil War]])

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
*[http://ccbp.cat/ Official comarcal web site (in Catalan)]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20040602095114/http://www.municat.net:8000/omunicat/owa/mun_p03.mapa_comarques?via=1&codcoma=8101200000&err=0 Map, on the site of the Generalitat de Catalunya]
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{{Geographic location
 | Centre = Baix Penedès
 | N  = 
 | NE = 
 | E  = [[Alt Penedès]]
 | SE = [[Garraf]]
 | S  = ''[[Balearic Sea]]''
 | SW = [[Tarragonès]]
 | W  = 
 | NW = [[Alt Camp]]
}}
{{Comarques of Catalonia}}
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