Municipality in Catalonia, Spain
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Cervera is a town of 9,000 people (2018) in Lleida province, and a stage in the Catalan Way of St. James. The city is characterized by the richness of its cultural and monumental heritage. Eleven monuments in the municipality are listed as Cultural Assets of National Interest (BCIN) by the Generalitat de Catalunya.
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, in the Catalan Gothic style, has three naves, an octagonal tower, and a remarkable Romanesque door.Around the middle of the 11th century, it already appears in a list of parishes in the diocese of Vic. The current church was begun at the beginning of the 14th century, and in 1334 the chapels of the cross on the Gospel side and the first chapel of the apse on the Epistle side were already finished. In 1358 the high altar was consecrated, and five years later the presbytery was completed. However, it was not until the middle of the fifteenth century that it was finished. In 1821 the building was extended by two feet, and the current neo-Gothic facade was built.
, Romanesque church on the outskirts of Cervera.
Church built in the 18th century on the site previously occupied by another one from the 13th century dedicated to the same Saint in devotion to a relic taken to Vienna from the Dauphinate, in the lands of France, there is a 14th century carving of Saint Christ.
built between 1718 and 1740, is neoclassical in style with baroque ornaments on the exterior facade. Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol, Joan Prim, Jaume Balmes and Milà i Fontanals studied here. It is the only civil architecture building of the 18th century in Catalonia.
documented for the first time in 1026. Strategically located on the road to Aragó, the castle appears to have been detached from the Cervera family since the beginning of the 14th century. It was destroyed in the 19th century, although the remains of the castle could still be seen in the middle of the 20th century, when it finally collapsed. Now only vestiges of the walls and the floor remain.
, from the 12th century, was part of the old Hospital of Saint John in Jerusalem
The 'Sindicat Agrícola de Cervera i sa Comarca' was founded in 1919 on the initiative of a group of farmers. The Farinera building was therefore built between the years 1920 and 1922. The Union is the most important modernist building in Cervera, which was used to deal with a law that prohibited the commercialization of wheat beyond the limits provincial The strategy of the Agricultural Union of Cervera to face this law was based on the conversion of this entity into a manufacturer of flour, a product that had no limitations in marketing. This strategy is therefore what explains the construction of the building.
baroque building palace of the municipal government with corbels supporting the balconies. The brackets represent the five senses and the reasons why you can go to prison.
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Located in the center of Catalonia, at the eastern end of the province of Lleida.
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