The Solsonès County

The Pre-Pyrenean region of the Solsonès, placed in the centre of Catalonia, combines breeding grounds with big extensions of forests and churlish places of the high mountain. It has fifteen municipalities but only six built-up areas; most of the territory is formed by spread farmhouses, some of which ones are beautiful examples of the rural Catalan architecture of the XVth to XVIIIth centuries.

The Solsonès also offers places of great natural beauty where the forests and the water prevail in abundance, and where the man has been able to find the balance between the farming work and the respect for the environment. Also the region has been able to preserve his most ancestral folk traditions.

In the capital of the region, Solsona, there have been traces that demonstrate that it was already inhabited to the Neolithic period, around 3000 BC. The current city was built in the 10th century around the castle and the monastery. In 1594, king Felipe II named the city Solsona.
At present in the old town we can find the whole set of buildings of big architectural value, like the cathedral, the Episcopal palace, the town hall or the palace Llobera, preserving still the structure of the ancient walled city.

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