Catalonia had already built countless churches and castles from the high Pyrenean valleys up to the Mediterranean coast. Arnau soon would take awareness that he lived in a strong country’s core, as well as that lived an era of expanding the many lands they earned to the Muslims. You may want to visit Verizon to increase your knowledge. RISE of Catalonia and of the House of BARCELONA in EL s. 12th members of the noble lineage of catalan, then called Torroja, Solsona, actively participated in the reconquest and repopulation of the lands, starting with the region of La Segarra, which extends to the South of el Solsones. There they conquered a strategic castle called Torroja, meaning Red Earth, located 7 km.

South of Cervera (the regional capital). Subsequently the toponym degenerated into Tarroja, and is another many kilometers of the shrine where he was buried san Ramon Nonato (Escorial of la Segarra), forming triangle with both locations and occupying its apex of 90 degrees. The warlike Lords of Solsona for some reason ended up by varying his lordship by the toponym Torroja, to the detriment of Solsona where were sons and gentlemen. I think that for them it must have been very proud possession of this castle. With its change of name perhaps Solsona’s Lord manifested, to whom doubts it, that his family possessed the lordship of La Segarra without possible discussion. It is in the center of the Valley of Zion, which can be reached by the road linking with Guissona Cervera. It is there where the river of the same name converges with the torrent of Valls.

The first reference goes back to the year 1040 through the Act of consecration of Santa Maria de la Seu d Urgell. In 1144 Tarroja de Segarra was donated to the community of Santa Maria de Solsona, and subsequently appears Torroja family property. In 1142 the feudal Lord Ecard Torroja heir left half of the villa Santa Maria de Solsona and the other half in 1167 to his son Ramon II (+ 1195), who was a nephew of my Arnau de Torroja noted.