The township of Sort has the intensity of a Pyrenean territory spread over 105 km2, its altitude set between the 694 m of the village of Montardit de Baix and the 2.883 m of the peak of Montsent de Pallars. It is distributed on both sides of the river La Noguera Pallaresa, where the different 16 villages of the municipality are settled, even though Pernui, one of the villages, has been deserted since the 80s.

Most of the villages are concentrated on the right bank of La Noguera Pallaresa, distributed in two zones: ‘el Batlliu de Sort’ (the Bailiwick), on the sunnier side, and ‘la Vall d’Àssua’ (the Valley of Àssua), on the shadier side.

Its boundaries meet the municipalities of Soriguera, Rialp and Espot, in the county of El Pallars Sobirà, and with Torre de Capdella, in the neighbouring county of El Pallars Jussà.

It is one of the 15 municipalities of El Pallars Sobirà and it offers the visitors a wide range of tourist activities, diverse and unique in quantity as well as in quality.

The township of Sort is most loved because it is what the meaning of its name suggests, ‘luck’: everybody dreams about it but no one is ever ready to find it. Famous for its lottery office -La Bruixa d’Or, literally ‘the Golden Witch’-, it uncovers to the visitor as a fortunate spot, not only because of the association between the name ‘Sort’ and luck, but for its history, featured by rebel characters such as count Hug Roger III and General Francesc Moragues i Mas, as well as for the power of its international river, for the hidden settings of novels, for the dynamism of its people. All this traits have turned the township into the cradle and the reference of adventure sports, thanks to its microclimate -with a yearly average temperature of 12,50C-, but also thanks to a traditionally tourist region, friendly and with an excellent cuisine.

In the township of Sort, you will find accommodation capacity for more than 4.000 people, in campsites, country lodges, apartments, guesthouses and hotels, traditional and nouvelle restaurants, museums and literary routes, exhibitions and popular celebrations, a National Park and a Natural Park, adventure sports and relax.

The tourist offer has been shaped by the region’s history and by your own history, too; heir of the tourism born in the 50s with Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park, blooming in the 60s with the discovery of kayaking and the ski resorts, developing during the 80s with the introduction of new white water sports -especially rafting-, and finding new formulas everyday to please visitors without losing our true essence.

Nature, culture and sport define this small great mountain township , inhabited by a few less than 2.000 people, with origins so different and varied as the many attractions to discover; you will end up saying, ‘Sort, I like it’.