Knowing the history of the Canal d’Urgell is one of our goals during this term global project.

We are visiting the Cultural Area of the Canals d’Urgell in Mollerussa this week to learn about the changes that the construction of this infrastructure led to through the territory. Economic and social changes occurred in a dry area that was known as the devil’s bump, due to its extreme climatic conditions.

The Cultural Area of the Canal d’Urgell  was created in 2003 to keep the memory of a 150 years old major work.

Thanks to the Canal d’Urgell, this rough land became the green lung of Catalonia that waters up to five counties of the Lleida plain: La Noguera, L’Urgell, Pla d’Urgell, Les Garrigues and El Segrià.

It took more than 60 years to the peasants of the area to learn how to lead the water of the Canal d’Urgell and begin to produce irrigated agriculture.