Instituts-Templers is a district of Lleida

Lleida

Lleida is a city in the west of Catalonia, Spain. It is the capital city of the province of Lleida, as well as the largest city in the province and it had 137,387 inhabitants , including the contiguous municipalities of Raimat and Sucs. The metro area has about 250,000 inhabitants...

, Catalonia

Catalonia

Catalonia is an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, with the official status of a "nationality" of Spain. Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Its capital and largest city is Barcelona. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an...

, Spain

Spain

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. It's made up of different areas between La Mariola, Universitat and the river Segre

Segre

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, mostly working-class, some middle class. "Templers-Escorxador" is located within the portion of medieval Lleida which was once owned by the Knights Templar

Knights Templar

The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon , commonly known as the Knights Templar, the Order of the Temple or simply as Templars, were among the most famous of the Western Christian military orders...

, hence the name. "Instituts" refers to the oldest public secondary institutes or high-schools of the 20th century town, that dominate the area next to Gardeny. It has undergone serious urban regeneration during the 1990s

1990s

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 and especially the 2000s. It had over 15000 inhabitants in 2009. The Battle of Ilerda

Battle of Ilerda

The Battle of Ilerda took place in June 49 BC between the forces of Julius Caesar and the Spanish army of Pompey the Great, led by his legates Lucius Afranius and Marcus Petreius...

 took place in this area of Roman-era Lleida, then called Ilerda.

Landmarks include the Templar Gardeny Castle on Gardeny Hill, the Teatre Municipal de l'Escorxador

Teatre Municipal de l'Escorxador

Teatre Municipal de l'Escorxador is a theatre on carrer de Lluís Companys, in the Templers-Instituts quarter of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain...

 complex on carrer de Lluís Companys

Carrer de Lluís Companys, Lleida

Carrer de Lluís Companys is a partly pedestrianised street in the Instituts-Templers district of Lleida . It includes a square, Parc de l'Escorxador, with a monument It's named after former Generalitat de Catalunya president Lluís Companys, who was executed by firing squad...

, including the Cafè del Teatre

Cafè del Teatre de l'Escorxador

Cafè del Teatre de l'Escorxador, or Cafè del Teatre for short, is a concert venue in Lleida opened as an addition to the Teatre Municipal de l'Escorxador. Its address is Carrer de Roca Labrador 4 bis...

 and the Aula Municipal del Teatre, next to La Serreta hill, the Peasants Monument, the Acadèmia Mariana and the future Climate Change Museum, the first of its kind in Spain.