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What to see and do in Sant Ramon

What to see and do in Sant Ramon (Segarra, Lleida): 4 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Activities · 2 Historical milestones

When to go to Sant Ramon: festival calendar

August: Sant Ramon Main Festival (August 28-31)

Towns near Sant Ramon

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What to see and do in Sant Ramon

Sant Ramon
Village
Sant Ramon is a town in the comarca of la Segarra, in the province of Lleida, northeast of Cervera, with a lively festa major at the end of August. It is famous for its Mercedarian monastery, popularly known as the Escorial of la Segarra for its architectural style, and it also preserves the ruins of the castles of Manresana and Mejanell, as well as two others in the hamlets of Gospí and Portell. The municipality was created in 1940 by the merger of the former terms of Manresana and Portell; from that first settlement came the military aviator Fernando Roig Villalta, who died in 1936 in the siege of Madrid. It has 483 inhabitants.
Sant Ramon Main Festival
Activity
The Festa Major de Sant Ramon is held at the end of August (28-31 August in 2025) in honour of Sant Ramon Nonat, patron of the traginers' (muleteers') guild, around the Sanctuary of Sant Ramon Nonat, a former Mercedarian convent from 1675 renovated in 1798, known as “the Escorial of the Segarra” for its quadrangular layout. On the saint's day, the last day of August, the festival dels Tres Tombs is held: the traginers make three circuits around the convent, now with tractors instead of carts; inside the baroque church, worshippers also make three circuits around the saint's mausoleum, in a chapel of the transept. The interior holds a neo-baroque altarpiece from 1947, which replaced the original one by Pere Costa i Cases, destroyed during the Civil War.
Sant Ramon Nonat, Mercedarian of Portell
Historical milestone
According to tradition, Ramon Nonat was born in the early 13th century in Portell, today one of the hamlets of the municipality of Sant Ramon, in the Lérida Segarra; he joined the Order of Mercy and devoted himself to ransoming captives in North Africa, died around 1240 and was canonised in 1657. His memory is venerated at the Sanctuary of Sant Ramon Nonat, which brings together a church, a former convent —whose oldest part dates from 1675— and a neoclassical cloister, popularly known as "the Escorial of the Segarra". In a chapel off the transept his mausoleum is kept, around which devotees walk three times, and every year, on the last day of August, the saint's feast day, the festival of the Tres Tombs is celebrated.
Creation of the municipality of Sant Ramon
Historical milestone
The present municipality was constituted in 1940 with the merger of the former districts of la Manresana and Portell, and took the name of the sanctuary that the Mercedarians raised in Baroque style between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.