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What to see and do in Viver i Serrateix

What to see and do in Viver i Serrateix (Berguedà, Barcelona): 2 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Monuments

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Monastery of Santa Maria de Serrateix 650 m

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What to see and do in Viver i Serrateix

Viver i Serrateix
Village
Viver i Serrateix is a municipality in the Berguedà comarca, in the province of Barcelona, home to the Benedictine monastery of Santa Maria de Serrateix, founded in the year 941. It was formed in the mid-19th century by the union of the districts of Serrateix and Viver, to which Mondrán and Pujol de Planes were later added. The church of Serrateix, the monastery's second church, is Romanesque and preserves one of its three original apses, as well as an 18th-century neoclassical cloister; nearby stands the pre-Romanesque church of San Pedro, today the seat of the town hall. The settlement of Viver is arranged around the church of San Miguel, consecrated in 1187, next to the castle of its barons, who in the 17th century sold the barony to the lords of Rajadell. It has 178 inhabitants (INE 2025).
Monastery of Santa Maria de Serrateix
Monument
A Benedictine monastery founded in the year 941, with its church consecrated in 1126, in the settlement of Serrateix, within the municipality of Viver i Serrateix, in the Berguedà. Declared a Bien Cultural de Interés Nacional, the complex brings together the Romanesque church, with its Gothic bell tower, a neoclassical cloister and the monastic quarters, among them the Gothic abbatial palace remodelled in the Baroque period. The church, of Latin-cross plan with a long barrel-vaulted nave in seven bays, retains only the central one of the three original apses, with blind arcading and Lombard bands; the other two were replaced at the end of the 16th century by two late Gothic chapels. The present cloister, from the late 18th century, houses in its courtyard a large cistern that collects the water from the roofs.