The capital of Urgell was one of the commercial engines of the counties of Lleida in the first third of the last century. The most active people of Tarragona correctly interpreted the meaning of a series of advances that took place in those years: the construction of the Northern Railway line between Lleida and Manresa (1860); the pharaonic construction of the Urgell canal (1862), in addition to the positive stimulus in the collective self-esteem that the granting of the title of city had entailed, in 1884; the connection of the telephone line and electricity or the arrival of drinking water in the city, all at the end of the 19th century.
Source: Tàrrega City Council
