Village
Lluçà is a municipality in the Lluçanès comarca, to which it gives its name, in the province of Barcelona, with its capital at Santa Eulàlia de Puig-oriol. Its historic centres are the castle of Lluçà and the former parish and monastery of Santa Maria de Lluçà, known since the year 905, when Bishop Idalguer consecrated the church at the foot of the castrum of Lucano. The Romanesque canonry of Santa Maria preserves Gothic mural paintings and a permanent art exhibition; nearby stands the round-plan Romanesque hermitage of Sant Vicenç del Castell, documented since 988 although rebuilt in the 11th and 12th centuries. The municipality has long been sparsely populated, with the closure of many masos (farmhouses), and preserves the hermitages of Sant Cristòfol de Borrassers and Sant Pere de Grau. It has 281 inhabitants (INE 2025).
Monument
Former Augustinian canonry founded in the year 905 as a parish, one of the most important medieval heritage complexes in the Lluçanès; its first documented prior, Pere de Sagàs, served between 1168 and 1185. The building combines Romanesque architecture of the 12th-13th centuries with Gothic and Baroque additions from the 15th and 17th-18th centuries: the church, with a single nave and semicircular apse, had to have its pointed barrel vault rebuilt after the 15th-century earthquakes, and the cloister, of irregular plan, preserves eighteen arches with capitals decorated with zoomorphic and plant motifs. In 1954, 14th-century mural paintings were discovered beneath the choir. Secularised in 1592, it has functioned as a parish of the diocese of Vic since the mid-19th century.
Monument
Castle situated on the top of a hill next to the village of Lluçà, above the monastery of Santa Maria de Lluçà, with the circular chapel of Sant Vicenç beside it. Documented since the year 905, it gave its name to the Lluçanès comarca, of which it was the head within the Barony of Lluçà during the Middle Ages, and was the permanent residence of its lords, which is why it never had a known castellan. The Lluçà family were vassals of the counts of Barcelona; the castle passed through the hands of Ermessenda of Carcassonne, Bernat III of Besalú and the counts themselves before, following conflicts between the Lluçà family and the Crown, Peter the Great ordered its siege in 1278: it was taken and destroyed in March 1279.
Monument
Sant Vicenç del Castell is a small Romanesque hermitage located within the precinct of the castle of Lluçà (Lluçanès, Barcelona). It has a circular plan, covered by a semi-spherical vault, and a small apse. It is documented since the year 988, although the building preserved today corresponds mainly to the rebuilding carried out in the 11th and 12th centuries.
Activity
The Festa Major d'Estiu de Lluçà is celebrated on July 12, while the municipality's patronal feast, dedicated to the Presentation of Mary at the Temple, is on November 21.
Activity
Winter festival of Lluçà.
Nature
The landscape of the pla de Lluçà extends across the central part of the municipality of Lluçà, at the foot of the castle, around the monastery of Santa Maria de Lluçà. It is an agricultural landscape surrounded by farmhouses, cultivated fields, woods and pastures, which preserves the memory of the region's recent autarkic past among the peasant farmhouses of the Lluçanès comarca.
Activity
The autumn fair of Lluçà.
Monument
Hermitage in the municipal district of Lluçà, beside the monastery.
Historical milestone
In 1611 the baron of Lluçà sold his jurisdiction to the Crown and to the local universitats, which made it possible to constitute the sotsvegueria of the Lluçanès. It functioned as a demarcation of its own until 1716, when the Nueva Planta Decree divided it between Vic and Manresa.
Historical milestone
In 905 Bishop Idalguer consecrated the church of Santa Maria de Lluçà at the foot of the castrum of Lucano, the first documented mention of the area; beneath the rock on which it stands, numerous anthropomorphic tombs from the early 10th century have been found, from the same period as that consecration. Above the temple there later rose the Augustinian canonry that organised the scattered settlement of the plateau, today considered the most notable historic building in the Llusanès. It retains an irregularly shaped cloister with eighteen arches whose capitals, with zoomorphic and plant motifs, are related to those of Ripoll, a reused Romanesque doorway dating from between 1170 and 1300, and 14th-century wall paintings discovered in 1954 and displayed in a small adjoining museum.
Food and drink
Artisan cheese dairy of the district of Lluçà that makes raw milk cheeses from its own herd of goats, with sustainable management of the pastures. It organises open days and direct sale at the holding itself.