Balaguer
Balaguer is the capital of the comarca of Noguera, in the province of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain.
It is located at 233 metres above the sea, by the river Segre, a tributary to the Ebre.
Population 14,068 (2001). Balaguer was conquered from the Moors by the Counts of Urgell in 1106, who made it their new capital. The town has a Gothic bridge, the Portal del Gel, over the Segre river. The historic town is on the right bank of the Segre, but following the Spanish Civil War, construction began on a modern bridge, which initiated development of a modern extension of the town on the left bank.
External linksOfficial municipal web site (in Catalan)Information about Balaguer from the Generalitat de Catalunya (in Catalan)Statistical information from IDESCAT (in Catalan)General information about Balaguer (in Spanish)Palomero, Aaron Gutiérrez, "Planificación urbana y vivienda obrera en Balaguer (1939 – 1962). Ocupación del margen izquierdo" Scripta Nova: Revista Electrónica de Geografía y Ciencias Sociales, Vol. VII, núm. 146(025), 1 de agosto de 2003. (In Spanish)
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