What can I do and what activities can I do in Sort?
Our people
Sort is located in the High Pyrenees of Lleida, 3 hours from Barcelona, 2 hours from Lleida and 1 hour from Andorra.
How to get to Hotel Les Brases?
The towns in the municipality of Sort are connected by hiking trails.
Currently, these roads are used for hiking or for farmers and ranchers to access their fields where they have their livestock or crops.
The municipality of Sort has an area of 105 km2.
The lowest point in the municipality is 694m in Sort and the highest point is 2883m in Montsent de Pallars.
Sort is the capital of Pallars Sobira and is world famous for the Golden Witch Lottery,
But there are also many other activities and places to visit.
Sort is a town that is active 12 months a year.
Sort is the base camp for adventure sports and excursions
Winter
Starting in winter with skiing at Port Aine, snowshoeing, sledding, tubing, a children's playground, a snow park, and a winter adventure park.
Spring and summer
We continue in spring and summer with excursions in the Aiguestortes National Park and Sant Mauricio Lake, the High Pyrenees Natural Park, the Batlliu de Sort area and the Assua Valley, all accompanied by essential and outstanding adventure sports such as rafting from Llavorsí to Sort full of adrenaline and fun or family rafting and canyoning, through the Sant Pere ravine or the Infierno ravine.
Summer and Autumn
Hiking along paths marked by the changing seasons
We end the year with the famous, unique, and growing activity of buying Christmas and Children's Lottery tickets at the Golden Witch Lottery office in summer and fall.
The terms that define our people are Lottery, nature, adventure, culture.
SORT AND NATURE:
Due to its location, Sort is in several places of natural interest such as the Aiguestortes and Sant Maurici National Park, the Alt Pirineu natural park, the Batlliu de Sort and the Vall d'Assua.
Aiguestortes National Park and Lake Saint-Maurice.
It's an unusual entrance, but through the village of Llesui (a shepherds' village that's part of the municipality of Sort), you can enter the Aiguestortes and Sant Maurici Lake National Park from two locations. The information point for the Aiguestortes and Sant Maurici Lake National Park in Llesui is the Shepherds' Museum at 973621798.
1. The first access to Parque Nacions is through the forest track that leads to the Clot de la Mainera and the Mainera lakes, the Estany Gran and the Xic lake.
2. The second access to the National Park through Coll del Triador, a common place for sheep flocks.
Baylliu, Vall d'Assua and Alt Pirineu Natural Park
Sort belongs to the Batlliu area, Vall d'Assua and the High Pyrenees Natural Park where there are countless excursions that connect several towns, the best known are the circular routes that leave from Sort and return to Sort.
SORT AND ADVENTURE
Our town is the epicenter of adventure sports in the Pyrenees. We are a certified tourist, sports, and family destination, listed by the Generalitat of Catalonia.
But this certification would not have been possible without the good work of all the adventure sports companies that for many years have offered top-quality activities to all the people who have come to enjoy them year after year. Word of mouth from one to another has placed us as the best adventure destination in the Pyrenees for the variety and quality of the sports offered, such as:
Rafting from Llavorsi to Sort
It is undoubtedly the most representative sport in our region, due to the fun and excitement of rafting down the best river in Spain for this sport: rafting.
The river on which this activity is carried out is the Noguera Pallaresa,
The Noguera Pallaresa River has a gradient and water speed that makes it fantastically fun, exciting, and safe for practicing an adrenaline-filled sport.
Family Rafting of Collegats
The Noguera Pallaresa River passes through idyllic places like the Congost de Collegats, where there is a great diversity of flora and fauna, where Gaudi drew some of his inspiration for the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona.
Canyoning
Horse riding
Adventure parks
Activities also include bungee jumping, quad biking, paragliding, bike tours, paintball, archery, motorcycle tours, hydrospeed, river canoeing, bob bus tours, snowshoeing, climbing, kayaking, paddle boarding, and more.
Skiing in Port Aine
The Port Aine ski resort is 20 minutes from Sort and is a perfect place to learn to ski and for family skiing. It also specializes in snow parks where several competitions are held each year.
The resort has 26.7 skiable km spread over:
6 green slopes
4 blue slopes
11 red slopes
4 black slopes.
It has several special areas such as:
The beginner learning area
The children's park area for children.
Snowshoe trails
Adventure park in the trees.
Snow Garden.
**The most outstanding feature of the Port Aine resort is its easy access. You can park in the car park next to the Hotel de Port Aine and from there you have the children's area, restaurants, a terrace and the chairlift that goes up to the Pic du Orri.** Talking about Port Aines is talking about family skiing and a snow park.
Near Sort, 35 minutes away, there are 3 more ski resorts:
Tavascan
Spot
Baqueira Beret, Peulla chairlift.
Sort and culture
Sort and Pallars Sobira are places filled with legends, novelists, castles, churches, monasteries, abandoned villages, medieval bridges, museums, and historical sites linked to the freedom routes of the Spanish Civil War and the routes to escape to France or vice versa. In the Pallars Sobira region, there are five museums, 16 castles and towers, and 15 churches, monasteries, and hermitages scattered throughout the area.
Sort Castle
It is located at the top of the town and was the residence of the Count of Pallars.
Sort Castle
The village of Seuri is an idyllic hamlet located at the bottom of the Àssua Valley, on the edge of the Pamano ravine, where the Moix family spent their summers in the late 1960s. Today, it is estimated that 12 people live there.
On the altar, religious sculptures coexist with a large red flower that recalls the origin of life. Moix has called it "Sauri's flower." "The walls speak of the place where the church is located. Of the people here, of nature, of the animals, of beauty. I tried to create an optimistic church, so that people feel at ease, without imposing anything or indoctrinating them. I hope that what I painted will disappear and become an essence that exalts people," says the artist.
Monastery of Santa Maria in Gerri de la Sal
Gerrri de la sal is located 12 km from Sort, where the monastery of Santa Maria is located. Various authors attribute the location of this Benedictine monastery in Gerri to the presence of the salt water spring.
The current building of Santa Maria in Gerri de la Sal, 12 km from Sort. The current building of Santa Maria, consecrated on September 25, 1149, was constructed according to the usual layout of early medieval monastic buildings, although the founding building was located in a small church of Visigothic origin not far from the current building, which has been documented archaeologically. It was one of the richest monasteries in the Bisbat d'Urgell, and among its vast and varied heritage, salt and salt mines stand out, a key element in medieval times.
Mother of God of Biuse
Baroque sanctuary located in the municipality of Llavorsi, it is part of the remains of the village of Biuse.
To get to Biuse, take the C-13 and after Sort, about 12km, before reaching Llavorsi, turn right in the opposite direction along a path.
And with this beautiful photo of Sort at night we say goodbye.
