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What to see and do in Ponts

What to see and do in Ponts (Noguera, Lleida): 7 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 2 Monuments · 1 Activities · 1 Curiosities · 1 Historical milestones · 1 Food and drink

When to go to Ponts: festival calendar

August: Ponts Main Festival (finals d'agost - 4 de setembre)

How far each place is from the centre of Ponts

Church of Santa Maria de Ponts 200 m
Castle of Ponts 550 m

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What to see and do in Ponts

Ponts
Village
Ponts is a town on the banks of the Segre, in the Noguera, which forms one of its most important settlements and a communication axis between the western Catalan mountains and the plain of Lleida. It is known for its conejo con llenegues (rabbit with llenegues) and preserves the church of Santa María and its castle. Documented since 449, when it was in the hands of the Goths, the town passed in the 11th century to the comital family of Barcelona and later to various lords, among them Elvira de Subirats in 1185 and her daughter Aurembiaix d'Urgell, whose county was seized from her by the viscount of Àger, until King James I fought for it in 1228. In 1628, defended by the canon Pau Claris, the town lost a lawsuit against its lord, and its inhabitants joined the Generalitat and the Crown of Aragon; in 1643 Louis XIII declared it a vila règia (royal town).
Church of Santa Maria de Ponts
Monument
Neo-Gothic church that replaced an earlier Gothic one from the 14th century, destroyed during the First Carlist War except for its 13th-century Roser altarpiece, now preserved in an adjoining chapel. It stands on the plaça de l'Església in Ponts, northwest of the town centre, with a single nave and side chapels and a large chapel acting as a transept. The main façade, with a pointed arch and plain archivolts flanked by two smaller doors, is crowned by a large pierced Gothic rose window with white stained glass and topped, in the shape of an H, by a square tower and the bell tower, octagonal in plan and with a clock. On the apse façade, the oldest part of the church, a double-splayed window survives with pilaster strips decorated with balls.
Castle of Ponts
Monument
Remains of a castle atop the Turó de Sant Pere (510 m), above the confluence of the Llobregós with the Segre, made up of a circular tower and two walled precincts; Ponts is already mentioned in the endowment of Santa Maria de Ripoll in the year 888, and in 1279 Pere el Gran besieged its castle.
Ponts Main Festival
Activity
Festa Major of the town of Ponts (la Noguera, Lleida), held around 14 September, the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, and the days close to that date. Among the events, the closing concert on the esplanade of the castle of Ponts stands out, bringing the festival to an end.
Rabbit with llenegues Mushrooms of Ponts
Curiosity
Traditional dish of Ponts, rabbit stewed with a local mushroom known as llenega.
Water intake of the Canal d'Urgell
Historical milestone
The Canal d'Urgell, the hydraulic work that turned the Plana into irrigated land, takes its water from the Segre in the district of Ponts. It was built between 1853 and 1862 with private capital and completely changed the agriculture of the comarcas downstream.
Samfaina coca of the Noguera
Food and drink
Coca of thin dough covered with samfaina of onion, pepper, aubergine and tomato, which the bakeries of the comarca bake for the fairs and the festes majors. It makes use of the vegetables of the irrigated lands of the Segre and the Rialb.