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Services
In
the village there is a grocer’s which is a butcher’s ans a baker’s at the
same time. On a week you can buy fish. There is an association set up “community
centre of Sedó and Riber” with 230 members trying to
invigorate the villagewith all kind of activities opened to the members and all
other people. The village has a swimming-pool with bar and next to it there is a
public sports centre. There is a priest so the weekly religious services are
assured. There is a surgery once a
week and daily in Tarroja. The center of primary medical attendance
is in Cervera. There is also another surgery specialized in reflexotherapy
and an extraordinary bookstore of old books
called Els Gnoms. The village offers
nice meting points and nice places to relx such as la Placeta and la Plaça de
misa, just as goof environs to stroll and walk.
It
also keeps up the dance hall, now fallen into disuse.
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Celebrations
We
celebrate the summer festival “festa major” in honour to St Donat who
is the patron, on the second Saturday of august, and the festival of Mare de
Déu de Santes Masses the third Saturday of November, although the date is
on the 21st of November.
Heritage
With
regard to the attractiveness, it must be mentioned the Santes Masses
hermitage where a Mother of God is sheltered, a gothic polichromatic carving of
the 14 century; a processional cross dating from the 16 century and made by the
jeweller Francesc Tarroja from Cervera; the Romanesque church dedicated to St
Donat it is very changed due to passage of time, it has a centenary church power
clock, some centenary bells as well, which were safed from Civil War, in this
place some silos have been lately discovered and have an uncertain origin.We
cannot forget the fishtank in Sió river already documented in the 14th
century, the tower base, from modern period, and some walls from the first
castle in the highest part of the population centre just as some porches as
well. In the lower part there are two ancestral homes of the 16th
century both unfinished: the first one, whose construction was ordered by Pere
Joan de Cornellana and later on by Manuel de Magarola, honourable citizen from
Barcelona (name given to the square), and the second one by Joan Carbonell,
merchant from Sedó in 1588.
History
The
centre of the population grew from the first medieval castle placed in the
highest point of the hill of Sedó,
with the church out of the enclosure. Later on this medieval centre lead to a
development in the hillside starting the 16th century, but in the 18
and 19th as well. There are two impressive manor houses, unfinished,
from the 16th century and the portals which closed the population
centre. A cadastre of 1716 draws a population centre plan limited to the castle
zone, in the higher part of the village, and a group of housing, occupying from
the hillside to the plain. During the 19th century and
beginning of 20th, it is the most important growth, spreadind from
east to west, following the road from Riber to Tarroja (or royal road).
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