monuments

Cervera

Monument declared a National Cultural Heritage (BCIN)

The wall

The walls are preserved in Cervera, essentially, medieval and were built the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries during the reign of Peter the Ceremonious. They were built on an existing site s. XIII. All totaled nearly circuit 3.000 metres. The fortification was completed with an eight meter wide moat, barbacanes, slope, battlements, shell bracelets, and round the scaffold steps that allowed the facility • installation bombards.
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Cervera bells are still played totally manual

The bell tower

The robust bell tower of Santa Maria de Cervera, d'us 50 meters and Gothic architecture, date of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, He gets up on the Collegiate Church and Santa Maria and the Paeria, offering a spectacular view of the square and the city.

touches: Cervera bells are still played by the bell completely manual, Like hundreds of years ago. This is a surprising exception.

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The bell is fitted between the church and the Town Council

The church of Santa Maria

Building started building the last years of the thirteenth century, was built during the s. XIV and was completed s. XV.

They have worked to highlight the windows coli Maraya, sculpture of the Madonna and Child that is next to the Romanesque door of the sacristy, Virgin Bruna Coll de les Savines…

Another feature to note is that the tower is fitted between the church and the Town Council and it contains six bells are still surrounded by hand.

BCIN (Monument declared a National Cultural Heritage)

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The most important building in the city representative

College

Probably the most important building in the city representative, for its importance in history. It is a closed building, Structured around three courtyards.

The main façade is Baroque, built of stone blocks and a doorway framed by two columns on each side. On the door stands the figure of the Immaculate Conception, patron of the institution.

On the highest point stands the royal crown, reminder of the founding monarchy. The chapel and auditorium contains a magnificent altarpiece dedicated to the Immaculate, who was the patron saint of students.

BCIN (Monument declared a National Cultural Heritage)

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Symbolizes the four bars of the flag

The Generalitat Monument

Work of JM Subirachs, represents the recovery of the Generalitat of Catalonia, with the most important milestones in our history recorded in one of the four pillars, symbols of the four stripes of the flag.

Housed the Machine of the Farinera

The union

Work of Cesar Martinell, disciple of Gaudi, highlights its contrast and shows the typical parabolic arcs used in modernist architecture with rectangular base of the building.

Its main function was to house the machinery of the flour and provide agricultural services in order to reduce consumption and costs depend on middlemen to a minimum so that farmers removed more in benefit.

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They emphasize the brackets beneath the balconies

La Paeria de Cervera

Baroque building of the seventeenth century, extended the eighteenth century, which is situated in the main square. The façade of this majestic building include the brackets beneath the balconies, of which each group represents, RTL: the virtues that should have traders, the five senses and reasons related to prison.

BCIN (Monument declared a National Cultural Heritage)

There was born the Government of Catalonia

Architectural Set of the Company of Jesus

Currently made up of geriatric Mother Janer, the municipal auditorium and the chapel of Our Lady of Fire. Here existed the St. Bernard eslésia, where years 1358 i 1359 Peter of Aragon presided the Catalan Parliament, considered an important episode in the creation of the Generalitat of Catalonia. L’any 1452 there were signed the marriage between Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile, Catholic kings. During the university period it was the College of San Carlos, run by Jesuits. Among played host to the philosopher Balmes, room which is still preserved.

Small circular Romanesque church

Sant Pere el Gros

 

Located on the road to Vallfogona. It is a small Romanesque church steeple and circular. He is currently the only remaining of the monastery that had been linked to the monastery of Ripoll.

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Chapel neoclassical

Holy Christopher

Church related to the old portal in the wall of the same name. At the beginning of s. XV existed a temple on which the chapel was rebuilt in neoclassical style.

Venerated image of San Magin

Church of Sant Magí

Erected next to the old post Valley, venerated statue of the saint and the whole neighborhood celebrates the feast 19 d'agost, the collection of water and giving it to the people.

From the Government of Catalonia

The Delmera House

Keep the shield on the edge of one of the balconies.

Old Residence of Pedrolo's lords

Cal Razquin

Main street, No.. 61 Former residence of the lords of Pedrolo. Family novel • lista, playwright, poet and translator Manuel Pedrolo, one of the most prolific writers of contemporary Catalan literature.

In its round the old town nucleus was formed

The castle

Is erected. XI, occupied the highest hill Montse. Royal jurisdiction, his shelter was forming the original core of the city. Currently only preserved the exterior walls.

BCIN (Monument declared a National Cultural Heritage)

Main street, No.. 87-89

Casa Massot Dalmases

It is the most outstanding example of the houses of the XVII - XVIII. Its owner, Faust and Dalmases Massot (Cervera, 1870 – Valencia, 1938), was historian and law graduate. He formed a copious collection of documents and books of interest for the history of Cervera and partial region deposited in the Historical Archive of Cervera.

Main street, No.. 115

House Museum Duran i Sanpere

Casa Duran is part of the municipal museum Cerverí designated under the name Duran Museum and Sanpere. It is considered the ancestral home of the family Cervera Duran, while others had been held on Main Street.

Aesthetically belongs to the bourgeois sensibility and taste typical of the era of restoration. Casa de l'distinguished historian, archaeologist, archivist, columnist and researcher Agustin Duran Sanpere. With the facade decorated with sgraffito, on the first floor retains the same furniture and stolen the century.

The Municipal Center for Culture had been established there, currently, is the headquarters of the Regional Museum of Cervera.

Main street, No.. 92

JOAN HOUSE (s. XVI)

We face the only example of a house that retains the original character of the sixteenth century, a large voussoired, windows and heraldic decoration upper porch under the eaves of the roof.

The openings are typical of the attic of the manor houses of the sixteenth century Catalan. L’any 1920 the facade of the house was dismantled and rebuilt back to avoid falling. He respected the balcony, added later time.

Main street, No.. 105

Old Cal Greoles barber shop

In their doors to us the modernist style of the century. La font data del s. XIX. Today is the exhibition hall, the art Cerverina.

Modernist tribune

Luraya house

Keep a remarkable modernist gallery.

Church of the former Dominican convent

Sant Domènec (s. XIV – XV)

Gothic church of the former Dominican convent. On either side of the apse were built in the eighteenth century chapels of the Rosary and St. Thomas.

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It was part of an old hospital

Santa Magdalena S. XIV

Remains of the church of a single ship, which was part of an old hospital, probably dedicated to the care of leprosy.

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Front remodeled by Jaime Padron

Church of San Juan

It was a house of the order of Hospitallers delmera. Stresses the Maltese cross observed on the door. The exterior facade is part of the eighteenth century renovated by Jaime Padron. The house also hosted the founding Martinez, established to educate girls. currently used, sometimes, as showroom.

Set of the Church and the Old Convent (s.XIV)

Saint Francis

Architectural ensemble formed by the church and the convent of Sant Francesc, this second in ruins, located at one end of the city and being part of the old town.
The first news dates from 1235, taking advantage of a land donation by King James I. The church is of a single nave covered with three sections of ribbed vaults with an elevated heart at the feet. The head is polygonal and five sections and several side chapels. Next to the epistle are six chapels with heights, Variable widths and depths. With regard to the chapels of the Gospel Band we have four Gothic ones and that of Sant Antoni de Padua built in the eighteenth century with a dome roof and a rear room..

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The monumental city of Cervera