 Lleida (officially referred as Lleida) is a city in the west of Catalonia, Spain. It is the capital of the Spanish province of the same name, and has 124,709 inhabitants as of 2005. Its main industries are agriculture and tourism.
It is a traditionally Catalan-speaking town and province, with a characteristic dialect (known as Western or, more specifically, North-Western Catalan) with features such as lo and los for the definite article. Some of these features, however, are nowadays more common among older people and in the province rather than in the town of Lleida, where only the phonetic aspects of the dialect are preserved. |
