Official Name: | Torà |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Mapsize: | 250px |
Pushpin Map: | Spain |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Torà within Spain |
Pushpin Mapsize1: | 250 |
Coordinates: | 41.8114°N 1.4039°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Spain |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Type2: | Province |
Subdivision Name2: | Lleida |
Subdivision Type3: | Region |
Subdivision Name3: | Central Catalonia |
Subdivision Type4: | Comarca |
Subdivision Name4: | Solsonès |
Established Title: | Founded |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Magí Coscollola Andreu (2015)[1] |
Area Footnotes: | [2] |
Area Total Km2: | 93.3 |
Elevation M: | 448 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Population Demonym: | toranès/toranesa |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 25750 |
Area Code: | 34 (Spain) + 973 (Lleida) |
Torà (in Catalan; Valencian pronounced as /toˈɾa/; Spanish; Castilian: Torá) is a town and municipality in the North East of the comarca (county) 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 (Thoranum castrum). 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 (6,145 inhabitants in 2010), a neighbor town that has experienced an important economic development in the last half century (mainly due to meat production and generation of a meat packing industry) parallel to an unprecedented demographic growth sped up in the recent years (from 3,060 inhabitants in 1998 to 6,145 in 2010).
The municipality stretches along la Vall (valley) de la Riera (creek or brook) de Llanera (the Valley of Llanera's Creek) 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 (a kind of hill) de l'Aguda (L'Aguda's Hill), el Tossal de Sant Donat (Snat Donat's Hill), 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 Llaneras 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.[3]
In 1968, the former municipality of Llanera was integrated to Torà.
These are the populated places present in the municipality of Torà:
See main article: 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.
Location: Carrer Nou, with access through two portals: Portal Nou at Plaça del Pati (Courtyard's Square), and a portal at Plaça de l'Església (Church's Square)[5]
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.[3]