Qualla: Cervera https://qualla.com/cervera en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:03 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/v/cervera-wk/hero-small.webp Qualla: Cervera https://qualla.com/cervera Cervera: Introduction https://qualla.com/cervera/ Photo credit Jordi Roqué, CC BY-SA 3.0. In 1717, Philip V punished Catalonia by handing a favor to Cervera. Having crushed the region's support for his Habsburg rival in the War of the Spanish Succession, the victorious Bourbon king shut down all six of Catalonia's universities at once, and rebuilt a single one here, in the loyal little town that had backed him. For more than a century, anyone in Catalonia who wanted a university degree had to come to Cervera and nowhere else. The vast 18th-century university building still dominates the town, a monument to a reward and a punishment delivered in the same royal stroke. It is not even the strangest thing to have happened in these streets.

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/v/cervera-wk/sp2v-cervera-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Cervera: The Marriage That Made a Country https://qualla.com/cervera/ Photo credit PCB75, CC BY-SA 2.0. Two and a half centuries before the university, Cervera hosted a moment that reshaped the map of Europe. In 1469, a parliament met in the town at which Ferdinand, heir to Aragon and later called the Catholic, accepted the terms of his marriage to Isabella of Castile. That union o...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/v/cervera-wk/sp2v-cervera-the-marriage-that-made-a-country.mp3 0:06 2 full Cervera: Witches' Alley https://qualla.com/cervera/ Photo credit Pere prlpz, CC BY-SA 3.0. Cervera also keeps a darker, older character, and you can walk straight into it. The Carrero de les Bruixes, the Alley of the Witches, preserves the tight medieval structure of the town, and it gives its name and spirit to the Aquelarre, the festival held on the last weekend of A...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/v/cervera-wk/sp2v-cervera-witches-alley.mp3 0:06 3 full Cervera: A Town That Performs Its Faith https://qualla.com/cervera/ Photo credit Enfo, CC BY-SA 3.0. Ritual runs deep here, and much of it is old enough to stagger the imagination. Cervera has staged its Passion play since 1447, a tradition so central that the town built the Gran Teatre de la Passio, seating 1,700, to house it. It has celebrated Corpus Christi since 1337, with t...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/v/cervera-wk/sp2v-cervera-a-town-that-performs-its-faith.mp3 0:06 4 full Cervera: Eleven Monuments and a Round Church https://qualla.com/cervera/ Photo credit Angela LLop, CC BY-SA 2.0. Eleven of Cervera's monuments carry Catalonia's highest heritage protection, and they span a thousand years. There is an 11th-century castle, a walled enclosure raised in the 14th century by order of Peter III the Ceremonious, and the parish church of Santa Maria. Most singular i...

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