7 Sights in Vic, Spain (with Map and Images)

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 over 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 portal of Sant Sadurní and a sculptured portal.

Wikipedia: La Pietat de Vic (CA)

The Pont de Queralt, Sant Francesc or La Calla 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 late in the 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 formed by four semicircular arches of different dimensions. On pillars, with squid attached. In order to lighten the weight of the structure, there are also three semicircular arches open between the arcades. Over the centuries it has undergone multiple restorations, the last of which was carried out after the blasting at the end of the civil war in the part closest to the wall.

Wikipedia: Pont de Queralt (CA)

The Montcada Castle was located in the upper part of the city of Vic and was erected in the late eleventh century. At that time it was known as palace, county tower of Vic or more often as castle of Vic. After being abandoned in 1860 it was put up for sale in 1882. Today, the remains of the castle remain in the northern and western sectors that are preserved around the Roman Temple of Vic, whose walls formed the interior 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.

Wikipedia: Castell dels Montcada (CA)

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

The Museu Episcopal de Vic is a museum of medieval art that houses a magnificent collection of masterpieces of painting and sculpture from the Catalan Romanesque and Gothic period. 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.

Wikipedia: Museu Episcopal de Vic (CA)

The remedy convent was a Franciscan establishment in the episcopal city of Vic. Today it forms a parish seat. It should not be confused with the temple on the street of the hospital founded in the late 18th century for the third order of Sant Francesc.

Wikipedia: Convent del Remei (CA)

Sant Francesc s'hi Moria or Sant Francesc d'Almúnia, is a chapel protected as a cultural asset of local interest in the extreme northeast of the municipality of Vic (Osona), very close to the thermal baths with Folgueroles and Manlleu.

Wikipedia: Sant Francesc s'hi Moria (CA)