La Morera de Montsant

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: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2009. 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 La Morera de Montsant. Its depth: 31 m. 2 springs are recorded.

Ground: 47% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 32% practically impermeable; 13% low permeability, local groundwater only; 5.1% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 2 ha, in 2022.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 77% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 77% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 98% of homes; fibre 77%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 415 mm a year (1971–2000), about 355 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28 °C, about 31.7 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 37 a year, about 18 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Poboleda · Torroja del Priorat · La Vilella Alta · Margalef · Porrera · Cornudella de Montsant · Ulldemolins · Cabacés