Torà (; , , ) is a town and municipality in the North East of the
comarca (
county) of
Segarra, in the province of
Lleida,
Catalonia, Spain. The
urban structure of the center has retained most of its original design, with narrow, twisting streets and
blocks formed by rows of attached buildings. The Medieval town grew around a castle or fortified place (
Thoranum castrum). A particular trait of the fortified origin of the town is the presence of a number of
portals to allow several streets their pass through defensive barriers formed by the rows of buildings of the town and its walls. Torà is some 10 kilometers northeast from the more populated
Guissona (6,145 inhabitants in 2010), a neighbor town that has experienced an important economic development in the last half century (mainly due to meat production and generation of a
meat packing industry) parallel to an unprecedented demographic growth sped up in the recent years (from 3,060 inhabitants in 1998 to 6,145 in 2010).
