Habsburg and Bourbon Spain

Cervera

Today: Spain

Years: 1492–1833
Role: University city of Catalonia

A town of the Segarra with its Paeria since 1267, to which Philip V granted the title of city in 1702. After the War of the Spanish Succession the king chose it for the only university in Catalonia (1717), and lodging nearly 2,000 students made its population double. The university building and the Paeria house date from that time.

What to see today

Casa consistorial de Cervera (la Paeria) (Paeria de Cervera): Public building, 17th to 18th century
Antigua Universidad de Cervera (Universidad de Cervera): University, 1718 to 1740

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