THE SPLENDOUR OF THE MODERN AGE: RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE
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Itinerary 1. Cervera - Granyena - Les Oluges. This
first itinerary moves us to Cervera in the 18th century, the
city chosen to build the only University in Catalonia, a
great building which still stands out, stately, in a monumental
city, full of majestic houses and religious buildings which remind us
the splendour, like the old school of Companyia de Jesus, La Paeria or
the alabaster works of Jaume Padró in the parrochial and the
University. Out of Cervera, some villages seem to reflect the echo of
the capital of the region for the monumental parrochial churches.
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2. Sant
Ramon - Ivorra - Guissona. The
itinerary begins in Sant Ramon, one of the most important centre of
devotion and one of the most spectacular buildings of the baroque period
in La Segarra, mainly the monumental main front. From Sant Ramon we
arrive to Ivorra with two notable buildings: the parrochial of Sant
Cugat and Santa Maria Sanctuary where the miracle of Sant Dubte took
place. Finally Guissona and the magnificence of its parochial church, as
the beauty of the main square makes of
this second itinerary a jewel of the baroque art in the region.
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3 . Tàrrega-
Verdú- Passanant- Sant Martí de Maldà- Maldà. The
capital of Urgell, with the set of the parochial and the town council,
can be the departure point of another itinerary which will first us lead
to Verdú, where we will be able to admire the Immaculada altarpiece,
one of the best sculpture exemples of the 17th century in
Catalonia. Also exceptional and monumental the parochial CAMBRIL of
Passanant with a big quality in its stuccos. Followed by the bell tower
and the main front of Sant Martí de Maldà and the parochial church of
Maldà.
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Itinerary 4. Vilagrassa- Anglesola- Bellpuig- Belianes. This
is an itinerary where the Renaissance art prevails par excellence: from
the Renaissance manor houses we can find in Vilagrasa to the painted
altarpiece of Santa Anna in the parochial og Anglesola, arriving to
Bellpuig, where the convent of Sant Bartomeu and the mausoleum of its
founder, in the inside of the parochial, constitute real Renaissane
treasures.
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Itinerary 5. Ribera del Sió- Agramunt- Preixens castle and Montclar castle. After
visiting the baroque churches of Ribera del Sió, in Agramunt we can go
to the wonderful city council dating the 18th, the mercadal
square and the valuble baroque altarpieces inside the parochial. The
visit can be finished in the Preixens and Montclar castles, both dating
the 16th and 17th centuries.
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