In 2021, in the midst of the pandemic and with students wearing masks, the INEFC Pirineus (National Institute of Sports and Physical Activity) began its adventure in La Seu d'Urgell with an event at the Parc Olímpic del Segre. The center was created so that students could be where they needed to be: in the local area. Around 40 students, mostly girls, began their studies for a degree in physical activity and sports sciences specializing in mountain and river sports, a degree from which they graduated a few months ago, this year. "The work done has been incredible, but we had the problem of not having a center to study at," Puigarnau, the center's director, said.

It held resin, wood, gold, coal, wool, ham, wine, oil... It wasn't exactly a land of passage. But, deep in the mountains, it was a coveted land. Since time immemorial. It is still today one of the Catalan territories with the highest density of megalithic monuments. The Romans also claimed this distant and difficult-to-access territory as their own. To get there from the coast, the most popular route was the Salt Road, used for centuries by muleteers from Cardona, the enclave of the white mountain: towards Solsona, passing through Sant Llorenç de Morunys, jumping over the Coll de Port, crossing the Vansa valley and from there, skirting the Cadí mountain range, to the present-day Seu de Urgell, at the confluence of the Segre and Valira rivers, and from where it connected with the strata Ceretana, the one that led through the plain of Cerdanya to Iulia Libica, that is, Llívia, founded in the time of Emperor Augustus. There are those who venture to say that Hannibal, with his elephants, had followed the Salt Road in 218 BC. Perhaps so.