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Balaguer is the capital of the comarca of Noguera, in the province of Lleida, Catalonia. It is located by the river Segre, a tributary to the Ebro. The municipality includes an exclave to the east. Balaguer also has a sister city in the western United States, Pacifica, California. It has a population of 17,729 (register office, 2025).
Balaguer was conquered from the Moors by Ermengol VI of Urgell in 1106; he made it his new capital, and it remained so for subsequent counts of Urgell.
A Jewish community existed in Balaguer from the 11th century to the expulsion of the Jews in 1492.
The town has a Gothic bridge, the "Pont de Sant Miquel", over the Segre river. This bridge was destroyed during the Spanish Civil War in the battle of "Cap de Pont" when Francisco Franco's forces first entered Catalonia from Aragon in 1938 through Balaguer's bridgehead. The historic town is on the right bank of the Segre but, following the war, construction began on a modern bridge, which initiated development of a modern extension of the town on the left bank.
Another Gothic building is the Santa Maria Church, in the heights above the city, in line with a quite finely conserved wall dating to the 15th century AD.
The historic mansion Palauet de la muralla de Balaguer, converted to a hotel, is located in the city center and part of the old city wall forms the back of the building.
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| Renting a flat (median)MIVAU, rent indices · 2024 · figure for Balaguer · 1,111 leases | €392/month |
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| Renting a house (median)MIVAU, rent indices · 2024 · figure for Balaguer | €500/month |
| Buying a home (appraised value)MIVAU, appraised value of private housing · Q2 2026 · figure for the province of Lleida | €1,277/m² |
| Average net household incomeINE, Income Distribution Atlas · 2023 · figure for Balaguer | €34,401/year |
| Petrol 95Ministry, fuel prices · 15 October 2026 · average of 15 petrol stations within 10 km | €1.700/litre |
| DieselMinistry, fuel prices · 15 October 2026 · average of 15 petrol stations within 10 km | €1.825/litre |
Sources: State Housing Rent Index System and appraised housing value (Spanish Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda); Household Income Distribution Atlas (INE); fuel prices (Spanish Ministry for the Ecological Transition). Open data, reusable with attribution. The set lunch menu and coffee aren't shown: there are no public statistics on those prices by village or by province.
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