The county tourist office, located in Sort, offers an astonishing view of the county and opens its doors to the visitor displaying the history around the ending of feudal Catalonia, through the life story of the last count of El Pallars and, indeed of Catalonia, with an exhibition called "Muntanyes en rebel·lia ...
Hug Roger III i la fi de la Cataluya comtal " (Rebellious Mountains… Hug Roger III and the end of Catalan Countship)
The Museum-prison “The Trail of Freedom” shows the most human side of last century’s history, the experience of refugees in Sort, fleeing Nazism in Europe: "a museum for peace at the frontier ", in Sort .
The Shepherds Museum of the Valley of Àssua, located in the Aigüestortes and Estany de Sant Maurici National Park’s office, in Llessui, offers the testimony of a way of life in the high mountain.
Learn about the secrets of the largest population in the world, insects, through the life and facts of the most beautiful insect, the butterfly. This is possible with the explanations of the people who have centred their life around the study of butterflies, in the environmental education centre set inside the Butterfly Museum of Catalonia, in Pujalt, 10 minutes from Sort.
Visiting and exploring the villages of Sort and El Pallars Sobirà means discovering the landscapes of novels, inspiration for literary works such as " Voices of Pamano", " Tor: Thirteen Houses and Three Deaths", "Stone in a Landslide" , which are among some of the most frequently translated and sold books of Catalan literature.
Other cultural sites are:
-the castle of the Counts of Pallars, daring from between 10th and 13th centuries, still keeping on the western side, a great tower with a circular floor, identified as the homage tower. During the Gothic period, it became a palace, from which an easterly wall remains, visible with the large voussoir door still and two gothic windows.
-the artisan cheese dairies of La Peça d’Altron and Tros de Sort
-the church of Sant Feliu, with the Virgin Mary of El Remei
-the cross-cairn set in the church of Santa Cecília, in Montardit de Dalt
-the gothic altarpiece in the church of Enviny
-the Romanesque hermitage of Mare de Deu de Soler with one nave and a semicircular apse
-the hermitage of Sant Josep d’Olp with its viewpoint above the Valley
-the stone fountain, homage to parish priest Josep Torra, in Sorre
-the Romanesque church of Mare de Deu de Bernui with the remains of Baroque paintings and rose windows on the ceiling
-ruins of the church of Sant Pere, in Llessui, with the particularity of being at the entrance under the belfry
Links of interest:
Butterfly Museum of Catalonia, in Pujalt. www.papallones.cat
“The Trail of Freedom” www.camidelallibertat.cat
County Tourist Office of El Pallars Sobirà www.turisme.pallarssobira.cat
Tros de Sort Cheese Dairy www.trosdesort.cat
The Valley of Àssua and the Bailiwick www.Valldassua.cat |