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What to see and do in Sant Martí Sarroca

What to see and do in Sant Martí Sarroca (Alt Penedès, Barcelona): 4 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 2 Monuments · 1 Activities

When to go to Sant Martí Sarroca: festival calendar

July: La Bleda Main Festival of Sant Martí Sarroca (first weekend of July)

How far each place is from the centre of Sant Martí Sarroca

Castle of Sant Martí Sarroca 750 m

Towns near Sant Martí Sarroca

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What to see and do in Sant Martí Sarroca

Sant Martí Sarroca
Village
Sant Martí Sarroca is a municipality in the Alt Penedès, in the province of Barcelona, with 3,485 inhabitants (INE 2025) spread across sixteen settlements. Atop the Roca hill stands its monumental complex, listed as a historic-artistic monument of national interest: the castle, from the 10th century, declared an asset of cultural interest in 1988, and the Romanesque church of Santa María, from the 12th century, declared an asset of cultural interest in 1931. The castle belonged to the Sant Martí family, lords of the place from the 10th century during the Christian repopulation, from whom the municipal coat of arms derives, bearing a golden bell. The main festival is celebrated on the third Sunday of July, and in February, a well-attended carnival parade.
Church of Santa Maria de Sant Martí Sarroca
Monument
The church of Santa Maria is Romanesque, from the 12th century, on the hill of la Roca, in Sant Martí Sarroca (Alt Penedès); together with the castle it forms the Monumental Complex of la Roca, today a municipal museum. The castle's first church was commissioned by Arnau de Santmartí; it was enlarged at the end of the 12th century on the earlier 10th-century building and was consecrated in 1204. Its Romanesque apse is considered one of the finest of its style in Catalonia. It preserves the Gothic altarpiece of the Ascension of the Lord, from 1421, attributed to Jaume Cabrera; the octagonal bell tower was added in 1600 and two side chapels with a Baroque doorway in 1633. Puig i Cadafalch directed the restoration in 1906, during which the Romanesque image of the Virgin of Sarroca was discovered, destroyed in 1936. It has been declared a historic-artistic monument since 1931.
Castle of Sant Martí Sarroca
Monument
The Castell de Sant Martí Sarroca crowns a hill overlooking the municipality of the same name, in the Alt Penedès. It originates in the 10th century, after the conquest from the Muslims by Galí de Santmartí, and was enlarged by his son Guillem in the 11th century; between the 12th and 13th centuries new buildings were added, among them the church of Santa Maria, and the complex combines Romanesque and Gothic architecture with later historicist elements. After passing through several lineages, the Pia Almoina of Barcelona acquired it at auction in 1481 and held it until 1837. Badly degraded after the civil conflicts, it was rebuilt from 1963 onward and today houses a museum with archaeological and ethnological pieces, among them the Venus of the Penedès, Iberian pottery of the 3rd-2nd centuries BC.
La Bleda Main Festival of Sant Martí Sarroca
Activity
Festa Major of Sant Martí Sarroca, with a medieval fair around the castle in autumn.