Vallbona de les Monges () is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the ''comarca'' of the

Urgell Modern-day Urgell (), also known as ''Baix Urgell'' (''baix'' meaning "lower", by contrast with Alt Urgell "Higher Urgell"), is a ''comarca'' (county) in Catalonia, Spain, forming only a borderland portion of the region historically known as Ur ...

Catalonia Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a '' nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy. Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the nort ...

, Spain. It is located at the southern end of the comarca, north of the Serra del Tallat, Catalan Pre-Coastal Range, where many

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have been installed. The town has the most important

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in Catalonia, the Monastery of Santa Maria de Vallbona, belonging to the Order of Cistercians. The main income is derived from

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and olive oil production, as well as some

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. There is a little tourism, but not enough to significantly lift the economy of the area.

Villages

* Montblanquet, 6 * Rocallaura, 93 Vallbona de les Monges, 157

Demography

References

Mapa Topogràfic de Catalunya - Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya

External links

Pàgina web de l'Ajuntament

Government data pages

The Hungarian Queen of the Vallbona Abbey
Municipalities in Urgell Populated places in Urgell {{Lleida-geo-stub

Villages

Demography

See also

References

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