La
Pobla de Segur is a municipality in the comarca of the Pallars
Jussà 
inCatalonia
, Spain
.
It is
situated at the confluence of the Flamicell and Noguera Pallaresa
rivers in thenorth of the
comarca,
above the Sant AntonÃ
reservoir. It is an
important local service centre, which has allowed itto escape the
depopulation which has affected
many municipalities in northwestern Catalonia. The town
is served by the C-13
road between Tremp
and Sort
, the N-260 road to Pont de Suert
and by astation on the
RENFE railway line.
The earliest settlemt in the area was to the north of the present
town, and known as
El Pui de Segur. It was
incorporatedinto the county of
Pallars after Count
Guillaume I of Toulouse conquered
the region from the
Moorsin the ninth century.
The town was transferred to its current location in the middle of
the thirteenth century, and cameunder the control of
Pere VII el Donzell, Viscount of
Vilamur, in 1355. His son
Pere VIII granted the first charterto the town in
1363.
Control would later pass to the Dukes of
Cardona
.
The
Comú de Particulars is a local
cooperative, established in 1834 to manage a
flour mill given to the town by the Dukeof Cardona: open to natives
of the town or their spouses, it is now a cultural organisation
managing the income from the local
hydroelectric power station. The
Torre Maure is a notable group of
modernista buildings from the startof
the twentieth century.
Demography
Subdivisions
The municipality of la Pobla de Segur includes three outlying
villages:
populations are given as of
2005.
- Montsor (2)
- Puimanyons (3), on the right bank of the Flamicell river at its
confluence with the Noguera Pallaresa
- Sant Joan de Vinyafrescal (63), to the south of la Pobla de
Segur on the right bank of the Sant Antonà reservoir
References
- Panareda Clopés, Josep Maria; Rios Calvet, Jaume; Rabella
Vives, Josep Maria (1989). Guia de Catalunya,
Barcelona:Caixa de Catalunya. ISBN 84-87135-01-3 (Spanish). ISBN
84-87135-02-1 (Catalan).
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