Balaguer is the capital of the comarca of Noguera, in the province of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain. It is located at 233 metres above the sea, by the river Segre, a tributary to the Ebre. Population 14,068 (2001).

Balaguer was conquered from the Moors by the Counts of Urgell in 1106, who made it their new capital.

The town has a Gothic bridge, the Portal del Gel, over the Segre river. The historic town is on the right bank of the Segre, but following the Spanish Civil War, construction began on a modern bridge, which initiated development of a modern extension of the town on the left bank.

External links

• Official municipal web site (in Catalan)
• Information about Balaguer from the Generalitat de Catalunya (in Catalan)
• Statistical information from IDESCAT (in Catalan)
• General information about Balaguer (in Spanish)
• Palomero, Aaron Gutiérrez, "Planificación urbana y vivienda obrera en Balaguer (1939 – 1962). Ocupación del margen izquierdo" Scripta Nova: Revista Electrónica de Geografía y Ciencias Sociales, Vol. VII, núm. 146(025), 1 de agosto de 2003. (In Spanish)