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What to see and do in Corbins

What to see and do in Corbins (Segrià, Lleida): 2 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Monuments

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Castle of Corbins 250 m

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What to see and do in Corbins

Corbins
Village
Corbins is a town and municipality in the Segrià comarca, in the province of Lleida, situated at the confluence of the rivers Segre and Noguera Ribagorçana, with 1,502 inhabitants and its own castle. It lives from the cultivation of sweet fruit — apple, pear, peach, nectarine, plum and cherry — although fewer and fewer young people are taking it up. Next to the village, the natural area of the Serreta de Corbins has become a reference point for mountain biking in the Terres de Lleida. The main festival, in honour of Santa Quitèria, patron saint of Corbins, is celebrated on 22 May with the traditional procession of blessed loaves and the foot race.
Castle of Corbins
Monument
The castle of Corbins stands on the summit of the hill that overlooks the town from the north, on the right bank of the Noguera Ribagorçana, almost at its confluence with the Segre; a large manor house survives along with the remains of what may have been an old tower. The first reference dates from the 10th century, when according to the geographer al-Rāzī it was one of the most important castles in the territory of Lérida. It was a key border point between the cities of Lérida and Balaguer, conquered from the Muslims shortly before 1117 by Count Ramon Berenguer III, recaptured by the Almoravids in 1126, and definitively reconquered around 1149. Ramon Berenguer IV then handed it over to the Order of the Temple, which established a commandery there in 1163; with the dissolution of the Temple it passed in 1317 to the Order of the Hospital.