Torà


Torà is a town and municipality in the North East of the comarca of Solsonès, in the province of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain.
The urban structure of the center has retained most of its original design, with narrow, twisting streets and blocks formed by rows of attached buildings. The Medieval town grew around a castle or fortified place. A particular trait of the fortified origin of the town is the presence of a number of portals to allow several streets their pass through defensive barriers formed by the rows of buildings of the town and its walls. Torà is some 10 kilometers northeast from the more populated Guissona, a neighbor town that has experienced an important economic development in the last half century parallel to an unprecedented demographic growth sped up in the recent years.
The municipality stretches along la Vall ''de la Riera de Llanera up to the confluence with the Llobregós River. Its orography is rather uneven with the lowest point at 430m and peaks rising up to 850m above sea level. The North sector features el Tossal de l'Aguda, el Tossal de Sant Donat, and the creek named la Riera de Llanera flowing across. On the other hand, the South sector features the hills el Tossal de Sant Pere and el Tossal de la Pineda, crossed by la Riera de Cellers, one of the Riera de Llanera's tributary brooks merging on its left. The town is settled by the left bank of the creek la Riera de Llanera, near the confluence with the Llobregós River, at the bottom of the mountain range la Serra de l'Aguda''.

In 1968, the former municipality of Llanera was integrated to Torà.
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Districts and neighbourhoods

These are the populated places present in the municipality of Torà:

History

Battle of Torà

There was a battle of the Reconquista fought between an alliance of Catalan counts and an army of the Caliphate of Córdoba in 1003 AD at Torà.

Culture

Festivals

La festa major on 1 September, the feast day of Sant Gil, in the weekend previous to the annual Carnestoltes.La festa del Roser, in May.Revetlles populars de barri in the beginning of the summer, after la Revetlla de Sant Joan.

Main sights

Municipal constructions

  • Plaça del Vall, the Main Square
  • Plaça de la Font, in the nucleus
  • Font dels Dolors, 200m from the nucleus
  • Casa de la Vila, a previous hospital located in Plaça del Vall
  • Museu del Pa Cementiri Aqüeducte dels Frares behind Casa Farguell in the place known as Camí dels Tísics. Built with blind round arches, 120m remainingPont de les Merites de Torà nearby the cemetery, with a round archPontet del Diable also called Pontet de la Sentiu, the remains of an aqueduct part of Rec del Moriquers also called Rec d'Ivorra, an acequia started in 1366, in use until 1920. Outside the town toward the South
  • Pou del Gel

Military constructions and buildings

  • Castell de l'Aguda : in l'Aguda de Torà
  • Torre de Vallferosa : in Vallferosa
  • Casa Castell de Llanera : in Llanera

Romanesque architecture

  • Monestir de Sant Celdoni i Sant Ermenter de Cellers : with three crossing apses and a crypt, in Cellers
  • Església de Claret, 12th century
  • Església de Sant Miquel : in Fontanet
  • Església de Santa Maria de Llanera : in Llanera
  • Església de Sant Salvador : in l'Aguda de Torà

Jewish legacy

Other monumental buildings

Convent de Sant Anatoni de Pàdua, built between 1697 and 1747
  • L'Hostal, still in use
  • Església de Santa Maria : in Vallferosa

Communications

Torà is along the county road C-1412. Coming from Balaguer, C-1313 towards La Seu d'Urgell until Ponts and then, the road C-1412 towards Calaf.
Coming from Cervera, the national road N-141, then the local road LV-3003.