Lleida is a city in the west of Catalonia. It is the capital and largest town in Segrià county, the Ponent region and the province of Lleida. Geographically, it is located in the Catalan Central Depression. It had 140,797 inhabitants as of 2022.
Image: Lleida panoramio Jorge Franganillo
Image: Conjunto monumental de la Seu Vella de Lleida
Image: Llotja. Lleida cropped
Indíbilis, king of the Ilergetes (left) and Mandonius, king of the Ausetani (right)
Catalonia is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a nationality by its Statute of Autonomy. Most of its territory lies on the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, to the south of the Pyrenees mountain range. Catalonia is administratively divided into four provinces or eight regions, which are in turn divided into 42 comarques. The capital and largest city, Barcelona, is the second-most populated municipality in Spain and the fifth-most populous urban area in the European Union.
The Roca dels Moros contains paintings protected as part of the Rock art of the Iberian Mediterranean Basin, a World Heritage Site
Iberian fortress Els Vilars in Arbeca
Aqüeducte de les Ferreres, Roman aqueduct in Tarragona
Origins of the blason of the County of Barcelona, by Claudi Lorenzale