Cervera

Cervera municipality
Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Catalonia
Province :	Lleida
Comarca :	Segarra
Coordinates	41 ° 40 ′ N , 1 ° 16 ′ E Coordinates: 41 ° 40 ′ N , 1 ° 16 ′ E
Height :	548 msnm
Area :	55.2 km²
Residents :	9,180 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	166.3 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	25200
Municipality number ( INE ):	25072
administration
Official language :	Castilian , Catalan
Mayor :	Joan Valldaura i Pujol
Website :	www.cerverapaeria.cat
Location of the municipality

Cervera is the capital of the Comarca Segarra , a district in the province of Lleida in the interior of the autonomous region of Catalonia . Cervera has 9180 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019).

history

Cervera was founded as a market in 1182 and elevated to town in 1702 . During the War of the Spanish Succession , Cervara sided with Philip V. After the war (1717), the University of Barcelona moved to Cervera. The presence of professors and students dominated city life until 1842 when the university was relocated to Barcelona . The neoclassical building of the old university is one of the city's attractions today.

Worth seeing

La Farinera del Sindicat Agrícola de Cervera , a historic mill and factory building by Cèsar Martinell
Sant Pere Gros , Romanesque round church

traffic

The city has a train station on the Lleida - Barcelona line via Manresa . There are regional train connections to Barcelona-Sants Station and Lleida Pirineus Station. These two stations offer connections to the Spanish AVE high-speed trains .

Regional buses to Lleida, Girona and Barcelona, among others, leave from the bus station right next to the train station .

Cervera is well connected to the Catalan road network thanks to its location on the regional motorway C-25, called Eix Transversal , and the motorway A-2 .

sons and daughters of the town

Ana María Janer Anglarill (1800–1885), founder of the Germanes de la Sagrada Família d'Urgell (Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Urgell), Blessed of the Catholic Church .
Marc Márquez (* 1993), motorcycle racer
Álex Márquez (* 1996), motorcycle racer

Web links

Commons : Cervera - collection of images, videos and audio files

http://www.cerverapaeria.cat/ - website of the municipality (Catalan)
http://www.museudecervera.cat/ - Cervera Museum (Catalan)

Individual evidence

↑ Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).

[1] Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).