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What to see and do in Sanaüja

What to see and do in Sanaüja (Segarra, Lleida): 5 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Monuments · 1 Activities · 2 Historical milestones

How far each place is from the centre of Sanaüja

Castle of Sanaüja 200 m

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What to see and do in Sanaüja

Sanaüja
Village
Town in the north of la Segarra whose 10th-century castle was conquered from the Muslims in 951 and donated to the bishop of Urgell in a papal bull of Pope Sylvester II from the year 1001.
Castle of Sanaüja
Monument
10th-century castle conquered from the Muslims in 951, documented in a papal bull of Pope Sylvester II from the year 1001 and confirmed by Benedict VIII in 1012; it preserves the early medieval cylindrical tower, walls, an 11th-century Romanesque chapel, and a five-bay Baroque bell tower, after serving as an episcopal residence in the 16th-17th centuries.
Joan Agell i Torrents, founder of the Ateneu
Historical milestone
Born in Sanaüja on 4 January 1809, the chemist Joan Agell i Torrents studied at the Seminary of Barcelona and at the Escoles de la Junta de Comerç. In 1845 he held the first chair of Chemistry at the University of Barcelona, where he was dean of Sciences and rector between 1863 and 1865, a post he left on being appointed director of the School of Engineers of Barcelona. A member since 1833 of the Real Academia de Ciencias y Artes de Barcelona, he designed a telegraph model capable of transmitting more than forty signals per minute. A deputy in the Spanish Cortes and one of the promoters of the Ateneu Barcelonès, of which he was first president in 1860, he died in Barcelona in 1868 after having promoted scientific education and Catalan industrial societies.
Francesc Andreví, choirmaster
Historical milestone
The composer Francesc Xavier Andreví i Castellar was born in Sanaüja, in the Segarra, on 16 November 1786, the son of an Italian father and a Catalan mother; he began studying music at the age of eight in la Seu d'Urgell and at fifteen moved to Barcelona, where he studied organ and composition and obtained posts as an organist. He was chapel master of Santa María del Mar in Barcelona, of the cathedrals of Segorbe, Valencia and Seville, and of the royal chapel in Madrid from 1831, a post he left in 1836 due to disagreements with other musicians. Exiled in Bordeaux and later in Paris, he returned to Barcelona in 1850 as chapel master of la Mercè until his death on 23 November 1853, leaving six masses, a requiem mass, three Stabat Mater settings and other religious works.
Fair of el Foc
Activity
Event that combines fire spectacles, street parades and workshops with a market of artisan and gastronomic products of the Segarra. It brings together bakeries, cheese dairies and liqueur makers from around Sanaüja.