7 Sights in Vic, Spain (with Map and Images)
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Welcome to your journey through the most beautiful sights in Vic, Spain! Whether you want to discover the city's historical treasures or experience its modern highlights, you'll find everything your heart desires here. Be inspired by our selection and plan your unforgettable adventure in Vic. Dive into the diversity of this fascinating city and discover everything it has to offer.
Sightseeing Tours in Vic1. Museu Episcopal de Vic
The Episcopal Museum of Vic is a medieval art museum that preserves a magnificent collection of masterpieces of painting and sculpture from the Catalan Romanesque and Gothic periods. Located next to the Cathedral of Vic, in the region of Osona (Barcelona), it is declared a museum of national interest by the Generalitat de Catalunya.
2. Castell dels Montcada
The Montcada Castle was located in the upper part of the city of Vic and was erected at the end of the eleventh century. At that time it was known as the palace, the count's tower of Vic or more often as the castle of Vic. Currently, the vestiges of the northern and western sectors of the castle remain around the Roman Temple of Vic, whose walls formed the inner courtyard of the castle. The palace belonged to one of the most influential and prominent families in Catalonia from the second half of the eleventh century, the Montcada family.
3. Església de la Pietat
Mercy is a church in Vic (Osona) protected as a cultural asset of local interest. Church with a large nave, oriented from north to south, with side chapels. The nave is divided into six sections and to the feet, under the rear, a square arch. The rest of the nave has side chapels and each section is marked on the roof with stucco arches. The presbytery is defined by a series of steps and on the altar, dedicated to Sant Sadurní. The head has a room covered by a dome, with eight divisions of stucco. The square bell tower flanks the presbytery on the western part and rises above the whole of the temple forming an octagonal tower, and at the top eight semicircular arch windows are crowned by a balustrade , in which the sphere of a clock is inscribed. In the eastern part of the nave a wide chapel dedicated to the ordeal and in the west part is a smaller one dedicated to Sant Llibori. The ensemble is covered on two sides and has a main facade in the south and another secondary to the west. The south facade has an axis of vertical symmetry and differentiates the central nave from the side chapels. The portal contains a niche dedicated to mercy. The west facade contains several openings, the old Sant Sadurní portal and a sculptured portal.
4. Sant Francesc s'hi moria
Sant Francesc s'hi Moria or Sant Francesc d'Almúnia, is a chapel protected as a cultural asset of local interest in the north-eastern end of the municipality of Vic (Osona), very close to the boundaries with Folgueroles and Manlleu.
5. Església del Remei
The Convent del Remei was a Franciscan establishment in the episcopal city of Vic. It should not be confused with the temple in Carrer de l'Hospital, founded at the end of the eighteenth century for the Third Order of Saint Francis.
6. Pont de Queralt
The Queralt, Sant Francesc or La Calla Bridge is a Romanesque infrastructure in Vic (Osona). This bridge over the river Mèder is the oldest and most notable of the bridges in Vic. It was built in the early eleventh century and is located in front of the old Queralt gate of the walls of Vic, on the road that followed the Roman road from Vic to Barcelona. It is made up of four semicircular arches of different sizes. On pillars, with attached seawalls. In order to lighten the weight of the structure, there are also three semicircular arches open between the arches. Over the centuries it has undergone multiple restorations, the last of which was carried out after the blasting of the part closest to the wall at the end of the civil war.
7. Museu de l'Art de la Pell
The Museum of Leather Artistry, in Vic, is a museum dedicated to the decorative and applied leather arts, founded in 1996 and located in the refurbished convent of El Carme. It exhibits the collection of Vic tanner Andreu Colomer i Munmany, focusing on objects made totally or partially of leather, such as trunks, room separators, altar frontals, chest tables, stools, saddles, masks or shadow puppets. Of particular interest is the guadamassil technique and cordovan applied to boxes and chests.
Wikipedia: Museum of Leather Artistry. A. Colomer Munmany Collection (EN), Website
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