Alcarràs

History

In the 17th century the population again suffered the consequences of the Reapers' War and the French governor of M. de Rogles occupied the castle (1642), where they put a garrison, and then the castle was definitely disabled as confirmed by Marquis Filipo de Corsini, who accompanied Cosimo de' Medici in 1668, when he says that they found a very ruined population called Alcarràs, belonging to Marquis "di Lafuente" (the successors of the Fernández de Heredia were counts of Fuentes), where the remains of a small castle were barely visible. By inheritance from the aforementioned Heredia, the domain of the place passed to the dukes of Solferino at the beginning of the 18th century, who maintained it until the abolition of the lordships. Alcarràs also suffered the War of Succession, but in 1721 it had partially recovered and constituted a town hall (since 1500 a small municipal council had been run with three jurats or paers). In the 18th century, coinciding with a notable demographic increase, the great church was built and the nucleus extended along the Madrid road (1777), the current Raval de Lleida. In the Peninsular War, the residents of Alcarràs became sometent and fought under the orders of Colonel Baget in the Sierra de Alcubierre and the Bruc. The French army occupied the town in 1810, facing the capture of Lleida. The town hosted liberal detachments in the first and third Carlist wars. Madoz, in the middle of the 19th century, still speaks of some towers of the old castle, which was demolished at the end of the same century. In 1840, with the constitutional town hall, schools were created and in the summer of 1896 the spa of Alcarràs appeared, with ferruginous sodium chloride waters, good for skin diseases until the doors closed in 1920. New industries also…

Geography

The town is connected via the A-2 highway (exit 451: L-800 Vallmanya/Alcarràs) and the AP-2 highway (exit 5: Alcarràs). The distances from Alcarràs to other cities are: to Lleida , to Barcelona , to Zaragoza , to Huesca , to Tarragona , to Madrid , to France , and to Valencia .

Most-observed species

• Common Wood-Pigeon

  Columba palumbus Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  4,042
• Eurasian Marsh-Harrier

  Circus aeruginosus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  3,696
• Eurasian Magpie

  Pica pica (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  3,581
• House Sparrow

  Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  3,378
• Crested Lark

  Galerida cristata (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  2,919
• European Goldfinch

  Carduelis carduelis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  2,862
• Barn Swallow

  Hirundo rustica Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  2,721
• Western Jackdaw

  Coloeus monedula (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  2,498

Most recent

• M 3 — 2008-12-29
  4 km NNE of Monzón, Spain
• M 2.8 — 2008-06-17
  12 km SSE of Tarragona, Spain
• M 2.6 — 2008-03-14
  3 km N of Vilaplana, Spain
• M 2.7 — 2008-02-23
  15 km S of Sort, Spain
• M 3.9 — 2008-02-15
  9 km SSW of Bonansa, Spain
• M 2.5 — 2008-01-26
  5 km ENE of la Morera de Montsant, Spain