Castellfollit del Boix

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Catalonia allows no new houses on rustic land. Restoring an existing or listed building is the way.

DL 1/2010, art. 47. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 1994. The region's planning viewer ↗

The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 100% of the municipality.

Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.

Is there water?

IGME records one well or borehole in Castellfollit del Boix. Its depth: 2,450 m.

Ground: 86% low permeability, local groundwater only; 13% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 2 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 53 ha in all, the latest in 2026.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 93% of homes; fibre 80%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 427 mm a year (1971–2000), about 365 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.2 °C, about 32.1 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 48 a year, about 24 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Sant Salvador de Guardiola · Rajadell · Òdena · Castellolí · Aguilar de Segarra · El Bruc · Rubió