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Lérida

Lérida, the capital of the province, is the main economic and demographic nucleus of inner Catalonia. City traditionally agriculturist, in the last decades has become also industrial, commercial center and of services with one animated cultural life.

Lérida - Conjunto Histórico

Lérida - Casa Caballero Santiago

Lérida - Conjunto Histórico

The old city, encaramada on a hill and dominated by the cathedral, has a silhouette unmistakable. Its existence is very old. He was capital of the ibero territory of the Ilergetes, whose caudillos Indíbil and Mandonio offered resistance to the troops of the Escipiones during 2º Punic war. Roman city denominated Ilerda, was also key during the war between Julio Caesar and Pompeyo, facts that take shelter in Of Beautiful Civile, written by the same Julio Caesar. Later visigoda was an important

Lérida - Fachada modernista

religious metropolis. In being able of the Arabs from the 719 to 1149, it maintained its function of seat fortified in the Superior Border call. At this time to channels and drains were constructed that were the base of the later agricultural wealth of the zone. In 1149 it was conquered by Ramon Berenguer IV, count of Barcelona and Ermengol I SAW, count of Urgell. The Templarios received an important part of the territory. 1228, Jaime I turned it city of real law, and continued receiving real privileges until half-full of the 1400, among them the one of being host college student. From then it was object of sites and warlike aggressions, due to his strategic situation. In 1707, during the war of Secession he lost the three more distinguishing elements of the city: the university, the Paería and the Seu Vella. Lérida enters then a period of decay and postration that lasts until half-full of century XIX, when a revitalización process begins. Streets, markets are opened, arrives the railroad and the cultural life is reanimated.

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