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What to see and do in Bellpuig

What to see and do in Bellpuig (Urgell, Lleida): 8 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 3 Monuments · 1 Nature · 1 Activities · 1 Historical milestones · 1 Food and drink

When to go to Bellpuig: festival calendar

September: Bellpuig Main Festival (September)

How far each place is from the centre of Bellpuig

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What to see and do in Bellpuig

Bellpuig
Village
Bellpuig is a town in the comarca of l'Urgell, with 5,510 inhabitants (INE 2025). Seat since 1139 of the barony of the Anglesola family, it later passed to the Cardona-Anglesola lineage, to which belonged the soldier Ramon Folc de Cardona-Anglesola, distinguished in campaigns in Africa. His Renaissance tomb, the work of the Italian sculptor Giovanni-Merliano da Nola, carved in marble in 1525, is preserved in the parish church of Sant Nicolau, a 16th-century church with a ribbed vault; the mausoleum comes from the former convent of Sant Bartomeu, built in 1507 by order of Ramon Folc de Cardona himself, and was moved to the church in 1841 after the disentailment. Shaped like a triumphal arch, it depicts at its base the capture of Mazalquivir; it has been a Site of National Interest since 1925.
Tomb of Ramon Folch de Cardona
Monument
The tomb of Ramón Folch de Cardona-Anglesola is a funerary monument in white Carrara marble, the work of the Italian Renaissance sculptor Giovanni da Nola, made in Naples between 1522 and 1525, and located in the parish church of San Nicolás in Bellpuig (Urgell, Lleida). Ramón Folch de Cardona had been viceroy of Naples from 1510 until his death in 1522, and his widow, Isabel de Requesens, commissioned the mausoleum and arranged for his remains to be transferred to Bellpuig, where they were first placed in the convent of San Bartolomé, founded by the deceased himself, until in 1835 they were moved to the church of San Nicolás. It takes the form of a triumphal arch, with caryatids, Ionic pilasters and, above the recumbent figure, a relief of the Entombment of Christ; the base depicts the viceroy's battles.
Convent of Sant Bartomeu de Bellpuig
Monument
A Franciscan convent founded in 1507 at the wish of Ramon Folc de Cardona, baron of Bellpuig and viceroy of Sicily, on the site of a hermitage of Sant Bartomeu documented in 1326; the conventual church was already finished in 1591. The building, transitional between late Gothic and the Renaissance, is arranged around two cloisters: one Gothic, of two storeys with pointed arches, and the so-called cistern courtyard, with galleries of helicoidal columns by Joan Llopis (1533-1535), whose capitals show plant, animal and human figure motifs, and a third gallery in the Tuscan order added in 1614. It was burned in 1808 during the Peninsular War (Guerra del Francés) and occupied by French soldiers in 1809; it fell into ruin after the 1835 disentailment and was rebuilt in 1897, until in 1899 the Vincentian fathers moved in and built a new church; it was rebuilt again in 1941 after the looting of the Civil War. Today it houses the Museu d'Història de Catalunya.
Castle of Bellpuig
Monument
Castle built in 1079 as a watchtower with the founding of the town, expanded up through the 18th century; damaged during the Peninsular War and abandoned, it today preserves its stone perimeter and houses the municipal music school.
Mountain range of Bellmunt
Nature
Range separating the basins of the Urgell rivers, with views over the plain.
Bellpuig Main Festival
Activity
September Festa Major of Bellpuig in honour of the Santa Creu, with an aplec de sardanas.
Ramon Folc de Cardona, viceroy of Naples
Historical milestone
Ramon Folc de Cardona-Anglesola was born in Bellpuig around 1467 and died in Naples on 10 March 1522. He distinguished himself in 1505 as admiral in the conquest of Mazalquivir and served Ferdinand the Catholic in the Italian Wars; he was viceroy of Sicily between 1507 and 1509 and of Naples from 1509 until his death, a post in which he managed to get the king to give up introducing the Inquisition there, and as captain general of the Holy League he fought at Ravenna in 1512, where he was defeated. After the death of Ferdinand the Catholic in 1516 he received the oath of fidelity from the Neapolitan nobles. He was buried in Bellpuig, in a Renaissance mausoleum of Carrara marble commissioned by his widow, Elisabet de Requesens, from the sculptor Giovanni Merliano da Nola, and moved in 1841-1842 to the church of San Nicolás.
Pig's trotters with snails casserole
Food and drink
Slow stew of pig's trotters and snails with sofrito and picada, one of the most recognisable dishes of the recipe book of l'Urgell. It combines the use of the slaughter with the gathering of snails in the dry-farmed fields.