La Pobla de Lillet | |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Pushpin Map: | Spain Province of Barcelona#Spain |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Catalonia |
Coordinates: | 42.244°N 1.975°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Spain |
Subdivision Type1: | Community |
Subdivision Type2: | Province |
Subdivision Type3: | Comarca |
Subdivision Name2: | Barcelona |
Subdivision Name3: | Berguedà |
Leader Party: | CiU |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Vicenç Linares Clota (2015)[1] |
Area Footnotes: | [2] |
Area Total Km2: | 51.4 |
Elevation M: | 843 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Population Demonym: | Poblatà |
Postal Code: | 08969 |
Pushpin Map1: | Spain |
Pushpin Map Caption1: | Location in Spain |
La Pobla de Lillet (in Catalan; Valencian pronounced as /lə ˈpob.blə ðə liˈʎɛt/) is a municipality in the comarca of the Berguedà in Catalonia. It is located in the upper valley of the Llobregat river and is linked to Guardiola de Berguedà by Road B-402.
The town is home to the Artigas Gardens, a park designed by Antoni Gaudí in the 1900s. Other sights include the 15th-century bridge, the Sanctuary of Falgars and remains of the late 13th-century fortress.
The is a 600 mm gauge tourist railway that runs from the narrow gauge railway museum at La Pobla de Lillet to the cement museum at Clot del Moro.[3]
On September 8, 1864 La Pobla de Lillet suffered a major flood that took away a mill and two houses and in which a four-year-old boy died.[6]