Bética was launched in Seville in November 1913 as a biweekly magazine.

[3] The magazine covered literary and cultural work and adopted a modernist and art nouveau approach.

[1] The poet Felipe Cortines y Murube also served in the magazine.

[1] Santiago Martínez y Martín was its chief artistic editor and Javier Lasso de la Vega its chief literary editor.

[1] Major contributors included Isidro de las Cagigas,[4] Francisco Rodríguez Marín, Mario Méndez Bejarano, Quintero brothers, Ricardo de León, Salvador Rueda, Gabriel Maura, Armando Palacio Valdés, Francisco Cambó, Joaquín Hazañas, Ángel María Camacho, Joaquín González Verger and Alejandro Guichot.