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The caves are one of the testimonies of the evolution of the humanity. The regions of Lleida, from the mountain ranges of the PrePyrenean one to Pyrenean the axial one, count on vestiges of the presence of the human being in more than a twenty of shelters and caves with cave paintings, declared Patrimony of the Humanity by UNESCO in 1998.

Caves and cavities that have given rise to myths and legend like the one of the Grallera of the Coll of l'Olla, where they say that a treasure hides, or the hole of the Grallera in Durro, that is so deep that it arrives at the same hell.

It was not until end of century XIX when, in France, Alfred Martel began to make systematic explorations in the caves and cavities and thus began what today we know like espeleología.

In the regions of Lleida this activity did not begin to have force until entered good century XX, as of the decade of the 50, with the first campaigns in the mountain range of Montsec. In 1956 the section GELL was created (Grup Espeleològic Lleidatà), that in 2006 will celebrate his 50º anniversary.