Cardet

Cardet appears in documents as early as 1054, recorded as a boundary point of Castilló de Tor. Through the latter half of the eleventh century it surfaces repeatedly in agreements between the counts of Pallars Sobirà and Pallars Jussà, who sold or exchanged it among themselves on several occasions — 1064, 1067, and 1094 among them. Around 1070, Ramon V of Pallars Jussà likely granted it to the Guerreta family. The village had a castle that controlled access into the valley, though nothing of it appears to survive today.

In 1157, Bernat I d'Erill donated the castle of Cardet to the monastery of Lavaix before departing for Jerusalem. That monastery probably held jurisdiction over the place until seigneurial rights were finally abolished in the mid-nineteenth century.

By the 1553 census, Cardet had just two hearths — roughly ten inhabitants. Nearly three centuries later, Pascual Madoz described it in his 1845 geographical dictionary: seven single-storey houses, a parish church dedicated to Santa Maria, a cemetery set slightly apart from the village, and a house called Les Cabanasses that served as an inn. The land was mountainous, broken, and stony. Crops were rye, oats, and potatoes; livestock was cattle. Game included rabbits, partridge, hare, and — notably — abundant wolves.

On 6 September 1907, Cardet was one of the stops on an archaeological and legal mission along the Aragon border, organised by the Institut d'Estudis Catalans to protect Catalan artistic heritage. The team included Josep Puig i Cadafalch, Josep Gudiol, and Adolf Mas, among others. As of 2008, the village had thirteen inhabitants.