LA POBLA DE LILLET

Located in the north-Eastern part of the Berguedà in the high valley of river Llobregat; center of population is in the levantina part of the valley of the Lillet, to 843m of altitude, in the confluence of rivers Llobregat and Arija..

“Lillet” is known already in the 833 in the act consagration the church of the Castle. At the end of s.XIII, Ramon d'Urtx and his son Hug de Mataplana grants the letter franqueza to build..

It founded on the foot of river described like the most profid one as the world, companies of threads and weaves of coton ue were transformed into great textile colonies. The towns located next to river increase and turns towns of services. Later arrives the railroad, the train of the manufacturers of coton in 1904, arrives on foot from mine, becomes the train of the coal, cement, wood and potatoes. But the economic pillars begin to fail in sixteens and seventy. The last years diversified to the activity economic, industrialist, agriculturist, ramadera and of services, very specially the tourism.

If you dont want to be lost consult the plane of the Pobla de Lillet.

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