Village
Tremp is the capital of the comarca of Pallars Jussà, in the Catalan Pre-Pyrenees, set on a small plateau at 468 metres above sea level within the basin of the same name, between the Noguera Ribagorçana and Noguera Pallaresa rivers. With 6,123 inhabitants (INE 2025), it is the largest Catalan municipality by area, with 302.47 km² that take in more than twenty settlements. It received city status in 1884. It retains its walls and various castles scattered across its extensive municipal territory, as well as the hermitage of Santa Lucía in Vilamitjana, near which lies an important palaeontological site with dinosaur remains, among them the largest hadrosaur jawbone found in Catalonia.
Monument
Of the six original defense towers of the wall of Tremp, circular in plan and of small, irregular rubble masonry, three survive: the Torre dels Padres (heavily restored), that of la Sagristia (the best preserved), and that of Mingo (the most deteriorated, today a dwelling). Their origin is disputed between the 12th century (according to the historian Mir i Amat) and the first documentary mention of 1381, when Pere III authorized Tremp to levy taxes to repair walls and moats; reinforced in the 17th century during the Catalan revolt, they were progressively torn down starting in 1876.
Monument
Santa Maria de Valldeflors is the main church of Tremp, of Romanesque origin, whose history is closely tied to that of the town: Tremp arose from endowments to this collegiate church when the building was reconstructed after the 11th-century Arab incursions, and from 1090 a community of canons governed it as the head of the region's ecclesiastical district. It also venerates the martyr Saint Boniface, whose relic is kept in the collegiate church; the present building dates from the 17th century, built between 1638 and 1647, with a bell tower from 1909, and remains of the Romanesque fabric survive on the south façade, with a carved ball on each voussoir of the door. Six capitals from the old cloister have been kept at the Museo Diocesano de Urgel since 1957. It was declared a Bien Cultural de Interés Nacional (a heritage protection designation of national interest) in 2006.
Monument
The castle of Montllobar, of Romanesque period, stands to the west of the village of Fígols de Tremp, at the top of the Coll de Montllobar pass, and controlled the mountain passage between the Conca de Tremp and the valley of the Noguera Ribagorçana, together with the nearby castle of Eroles. Documented in the 12th century, it preserves only a circular tower on a rocky outcrop, truncated and collapsed on the southwest side: it is 7 metres in diameter, with walls 1.9 metres thick and up to 7.5 metres of surviving height, with the door set 6 metres above the ground, built of elongated ashlar blocks laid in regular courses. Next to the tower, remains of a medieval settlement also survive. The ruins are reached by a forest track that branches off the C-1311 road.
Monument
11th-century castle of vernacular construction, with a modest masonry circular tower that today preserves only its lower part, half a meter in interior diameter and up to 3 m high, along with traces of an adjoining residential building. Around 1057 it was part of the dowry of six castles that Count Artau I of Pallars Sobirà gave to his wife Llúcia, and it later passed to the counts of Barcelona; recovered in 1484 by the marquis of Pallars after taking it from Hug Roger III, it remained under the dukes of Cardona until the end of the seigneurial regime.
Monument
11th-12th-century Romanesque circular tower, of small, lightly worked rubble masonry joined with lime mortar, 2.35 m in interior diameter and 1.4 m of wall thickness, with rectangular arrow slits today collapsed; it probably corresponds to the "castro Poga Circuso" mentioned in 941. Disputed between the Mur family and the Crown in 1194, it passed in 1304 to the Pabordia of Santa Maria de Mur; the settlement and the tower have been threatened by landslides since 1858.
Monument
A castle of popular masonry, from the Romanesque period and built mainly in the 11th century, though with possible Carolingian antecedents, in the deserted settlement of Orrit, in the municipality of Tremp, whose remains crown the hill overlooking the village. Located where the Sopeira gorge begins to the south, on the left bank of the Noguera Ribagorzana, it was very important in the early Middle Ages, but declined after the year 1000 in the face of better-placed castles, such as that of Sapeira, which replaced it. It was the centre of a Roman pagus, a title used until 968. It was held by families from the Pallars, and in 1072 Artau I of Pallars Sobirà ceded it, together with Arén, to Ramón V of Pallars Jussà. Already in the 14th century it passed through various hands as a royal pledge, later joined to Talarn; it is known that in the 15th century it belonged directly to the crown, and in 1831 it was held by the García family. The base of a square tower measuring 4.1-4.75 m on a side and two rock-cut cisterns survive.
Monument
Castle of vernacular construction atop the small hill on which the walled town of Vilamitjana sits, to the north and practically above the church of Santa Maria; today in very advanced ruin, with barely a wall stretch of about 2 m and a doorway with wall fragments, without absolute certainty that they correspond to the castle. A Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's top heritage-protection category) (RI-51-0006528), in the former municipality of Vilamitjana, today part of Tremp.
Activity
Festa Major of the capital of the Pallars Jussà, with street parades, sardanas, concerts and theatre.
Historical milestone
Tremp historically had a very small district. Between 1970 and 1973 it absorbed the former municipalities of Espluga de Serra, Fígols de Tremp, Gurp de la Conca, Palau de Noguera, Sapeira, Suterranya and Vilamitjana, and became the most extensive municipality in the country.
Food and drink
Sausage made with the stomach of the lamb filled with rice, bacon and offal of the animal itself, boiled and afterwards cut into rounds and fried. It is one of the preparations documented in the Pyrenees since the fifteenth century.
Activity
Autumn fair devoted to the quince and to its preparations, from the paste to the liqueur. It brings together bakeries and producers of the Conca de Tremp and has become one of the gastronomic events of the comarca calendar.