; ) is a municipality and small town in the

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Conca de Barberà Conca de Barberà () is a comarca (county) in the region of Camp de Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. Its total area is , and its capital is Montblanc. At its creation in 1936, it contained 23 municipalities, but in 1990, several of these were amal ...

in the

province of Tarragona Tarragona (; ) is a province of eastern Spain, in the southern part of the autonomous community of Catalonia. It is bordered by the provinces of Castellón, Teruel, Zaragoza, Lleida and Barcelona and by the Mediterranean Sea. The province's po ...

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, Spain. It includes the settlements of Sarral and Montbrió de la Marca. Montbrió was originally a separate municipality, but was incorporated into Sarral in 1972. The municipality has an area of 52 km with an elevation of approximately 467m. It has a population of . Economic activity is mainly agricultural, principally

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and

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. Sarral produces its own variety of

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cava (a sparkling wine). The other major traditional activity is quarrying

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and producing alabaster

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s and craftware. Sarral also hosts Spain's biggest producer of frozen

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and

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. The town is ancient, with prehistoric urban remains having been found. It was granted a town charter in 1180. In the 14th century there was a large

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ish colony in the town; a street called Carrer dels Jueus still exists. In 1647 the town was destroyed by Castilian troops.

References

External links

Official website

Government data pages
Municipalities in Conca de Barberà Alabaster {{Tarragona-geo-stub