The state of alarm and the confinement caused by the Coronavirus pandemic will prevent us from seeing this year the annual show of the blooming of lilies. As a ritual that is repeated throughout all the springs of our … Read More
Tàrrega: From the Pati to the Pati Cross
Today is a bright and clear day. We are at the end of winter. In the Pati de Tarrega chestnut trees open and raise their branches to the sky. On one side of the square is the monument to the … Read More
“La Torre del Codina: exemplary in the use of alternative energies”
The energy self-sufficiency of the rural house of La Torre del Codina is a sign of the commitment to sustainability and renewables that links with the idea of being a reference in the recovery of native flora and fauna to … Read More
SPRING WALK: EL PLA DE LA RUDA
This year, the winter rains have been generous. Now, in late winter when the almond trees bloom and the fields are carpeted with green, it is worth taking a walk along the roads near the Torre del Codina. It is a satisfaction … Read More
“The docks of the train station: heritage of the Urgell”
In 1860, the railway line Barcelona – Manresa – Lleida arrives in Tàrrega. This fact and the construction years before, in 1854, of the road of Montblanc in La Seu, and later the road of Tàrrega to Balaguer and to Alcarràs, … Read More
The Order of the Templars of Granyena de Segarra
“Deus lo volt” was the war cry of the First Crusade of Christianity in the year 1069. From this cry and this crusade was born the religious and military order of the Temple: the knights-monks that have generated so much … Read More
Our landscape
In the recent and present time that we live, many of the important and transcendent things of the collective daily life have changed. “When a margin fell or a roof collapsed, it did not stop until it was redone, the … Read More
In Plans of Rabbit, let’s save the “Limonium catalaunicum”
There is a place nearby, our, magical and forgotten, where life and nature make their way every day. It is a place hidden from the crowds and from the human presence. Some few and few days of the year man … Read More
Cage the beauty
Says the popular saying that “The veranillo de San Martín of all the birds makes come”. With the arrival of the first cold, arrive to our country, a multitude of small birds that remain during the winter between us. Basically … Read More
The Talladell fossils
The British Museum in London, the Naturhistorisches Museum in Basel, the Geowissenschaftliches Museum in Göttingen, the Musseé de Histoire Naturelles in Lyon, the Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid, the Geology Museum in Barcelona are some of the museums, where … Read More