# El Pont de Suert

El Pont de Suert is in Lleida (province). Its old town preserves examples of the past, such as the Plaza Mayor and the Plaza del Mercadal, the old church, and the Abbey Palace, a beautiful example of civil Gothic style.

## Understand

The Pont de Suert has its origins in the village of Suert, located on some rocks a little to the southwest of the current town. Documented since 955, the village of Suverte survived until the 13th century, when it was abandoned to make way for the current Pont de Suert. In 1240 the town of Pont de Suert is already documented. the municipality is compossed by Pont de suert itself, and also * 42.4570080.7590811 Llesp. (updated Mar 2025), * 42.4083250.7928142 Malpàs. (updated Mar 2025), * 42.4013390.7529533 Ventolà. (updated Mar 2025) and * 42.3694970.8125564 Viu de llevata. (updated Mar 2025).

### Tourist office

* 42.4092960.7411435 Tourist office (Fundació-casa Cotori), Av. de Victoriano Muñoz, núm. 22, ☏ +34 973 69 06 40. Daily 09:00-14:00, 17:00-19:00. (updated Mar 2025)

## Get in
### By plane

* Barcelona El Prat Airport BCN 275 km (171 mi) away
* Lleida-Alguaire Airportt ILD is 108 km (67 mi) away
* Toulouse Airport TLS in France is 207 km (129 mi) away

### By bus

* 42.4079690.7425781 Bus stop, ☏ +34 902 42 22 42. Line to lleida, Vielha, Barcelona, and the bus that goes around Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park (updated Mar 2025)
Bus lines
* Vielha - Taüll, with a single daily service in each direction
* Lleida - Eth Pònt de Rei, with two daily services in each direction
* Lleida- Vielha
* El Pont de Suert - Caldes de Boí
* La Pobla de Segur - el Pont de Suert
* Barcelona - Les, with a daily service in each direction
* Lleida- Les, with a connection to Barcelona, which only operates on weekdays, with a daily service in each direction

### By car

By car, there are only two roads that pass through the town: the N-230 (in many sections already replaced by the A-14) and the N-260, which also share the road for just over 7 kilometers, from just the southern end of the town, to the place of Les Bordes, where they separate again.
The N-230, from Lleida to Pont de Rei de Bausen, in the Vall d'Aran, connects it with Lleida and Benavarri, and the N-260, from Coll dels Belitres, to Port de la Selva, connects it with Sort, Pobla de Segur and, through this last town, with Tremp, head of the judicial district to which Alta Ribagorça depends.
Apart from the two roads mentioned, the L-500 road leaves the municipality of Pont de Suert towards the north, from Pont de Suert to Caldes de Boí, which leads to the Vall de Boí.

## Get around
### Parking

* 42.408550.7403272 c/Esglesia. free. (updated Mar 2025)

## See

The town of Pont de Suert has a beautiful modern parish church, built at the expense of the hydroelectric companies in the 1960s, but it preserves, in the old town and by the river, the old parish church. In addition, within the town there is also the chapel of Santa Anna. Within the municipality, at the eastern end of the old town, there was the monastery of Santa Maria de Lavaix,p a pile of ruins flooded by the Escales reservoir.
* Village of Suert
* The village of Pont de Suert
* Current parish church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary (new church)
* Old parish church of Santa Maria
* Les Cases d'Aragó
* Lavaix Castle
* Santa Maria de Lavaix
* Sant Esteve de Ventolà
* Village of Sueix
* Tossal Rostides House
* Ribagorça Sacred Art Collection

## Do

* visit the Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park
* The Fallas are an ancestral tradition linked to the summer solstice that is celebrated in several valleys of the Central Pyrenees. There are variations in the way this tradition is celebrated, but their high ethnographic value has led to them being recognized by UNESCO as an Intangible Heritage of Humanity under the collective name of Summer Solstice Fire Festivals in the Pyrenees.On the eve of Sant Joan, the magical night, the fallaires climb the lighthouse with the falla on their necks, equipped with firecrackers to make noise. Around ten o'clock in the evening, already pitch black, they light the lighthouse and with the torches lit, the falla procession begins. The route is winding and the fallaires follow the winding paths, forming a fiery snake. At the sight of the town, when they hear the bells of the Old Church ringing, they start running, cross the Aragó lever, go up the Carrer d'Avall towards the Plaça Major and the Mercadal, and there they line up in a row and throw the fallas in the centre, forming a large bonfire; then drinks are distributed and the evening begins until dawn.

## Eat
### Typical dishes

* Girella is a sausage made with rice and lamb, traditional from the Pyrenean area, both from Lleida and the Aragon strip, whose origins date back to time immemorial.

## Sleep

* 42.435780.744041 Càmping del Remei, Crta.Vall de Boi (L-500), km. 1’5, ☏ +34 676 45 84 12, campingdelremei@gmail.com. (updated Feb 2024)

## Go next

Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park