Torà
Sign in to saveTorà (; ) is a town and municipality in the North East of the comarca (county) of Solsonès, in the province of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain.
Key facts
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- Torà
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- Municipality
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- TORÀ DES DE L'AGUDA - IB-503.jpg
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- Torà - View from l'Aguda
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- 250px
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- Spain
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- 250
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- Location of Torà within Spain
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- Country
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- Region
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- Province
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- 23px|border Lleida
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- Region
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- Central Catalonia
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- Comarca
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- Solsonès
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- Founded
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- Mayor
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Article
17 sectionsContents
- Districts and neighbourhoods
- History
- Battle of Torà
- Culture
- Festivals
- Main sights
- Municipal constructions
- Military constructions and buildings
- Romanesque architecture
- Jewish legacy
- Other monumental buildings
- Gallery
- Communications
- Demographics
- See also
- References
- External links
Torà (; ) 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 (), 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).