A town with history
Montsonís was relevant during the Middle Ages because of its location on the frontier with the Arab world. Later on, when the territory was defined, the settlers built houses using pieces of defensive walls, caves and irregularities of the land.
Presiding over the town, we find a castle almost a thousand years old, built in the year 1024 by the Count of Urgell, Emengol II, to protect his lands.
Following the course of the history, the Spanish Civil War is a turning point in Montsonís; the changes can be seen when one admires the renovated architecture of the town. During the war, and the typical poverty of the post-war period, many of the inhabitants of the zone abandoned the rural world looking for fortune in the city. Only until the seventies there was an inverse process: the return from the city to the towns.
Located at the base of the mountain range of Montsec, and very near Artesa de Segre, on the way to Andorra, Montsonís is few kilometres away from other towns that are also medieval centres, all of them with a wealth of traditions and preserved historical monuments. On this land there is a great variety of medieval fortresses, several caves, places full of fossils, spots that are good for excursions and camping, and a set of spaces ideal for climbing, paragliding, hunting, fishing and big extensions of forest to look for mushrooms.
