Long before the castles and the churches, this land was already inhabited. Prehistory has left a discreet but fascinating mark here: rock shelters, caves and megaliths woven into the landscape. In Peramola, the memory is preserved in spaces of troglodyte life such as the Corb cave and the Jou cave.
The most singular witness is the Sols de Riu Dolmen, also known as the Three Pillars of la Torra. This funerary construction from the Eneolithic —the beginnings of the Metal Age— still has its entrance oriented to the north, with a sgraffito design that is still visible, and speaks of those communities’ relationship with the cult of the dead.
You’ll find it in the Dolmen Area, at the km 5.6 junction of the C-1412b heading towards Tremp, with free entry. A stop that combines ancient history, landscape and trail.
Not far away, following the thread of the water, the Perotillo de Segre Dolmen rises as another stone witness to this age-old legacy. A singular structure that converses with the river setting and immerses us in the rituals of those first communities that made the banks of the Segre a sacred place.
