The origin of the name "Marçà" comes from the latin word "Martius", as Joan Coromines has announced. The research and studies of the historitician and archeologist Salvador Vilaseca let us know the most ancient history, even some remains from the Inferior Paleolithic.

There have been discovered son sites, caves and caverns, as the Cuevas del Xollat, among the Burgueres, the Cau del Molí Paperer, the Mil.loquera and Cau Montagut. The main material that we find is the one of the ceramics and stone industry of the roman style, which make us think that there existed a roman village. On the top of the Mil.loquera there are some ruins of a casthe that looks like as it it were saracenous, probably dated from the 9th. century. Even though the Saracens arrived in Marçà in 714, it was difficult to build the castle because of the mountains of the county. There can also be found some ruins of a church that could be buildt on the latest 8th. century, on a Romance style. The church of Marçà is already mentioned in the Pope Anastasio IV's "bula in 1154.

In 1153 the Marçà Castle appears for the first time, as being mentioned by Ramón Berenguer IV. In 1241, Guillem d'Entença's wife, Alamanda became the owner of it, ant the title became possession of the Entença Barony. In 1324, Jaime II gave the castle to his son Ramón Berenguer, and it happened to be a part of the Earldom de Prades. From then on, the Earldom suffered from some problems.

In 1611, the friars founded the San Marsal Abbey near the village. The building was left alone during the Wars of Sucesión, del Francés, and during the Trienio Liberal, and finally, it was burnt and sacked in 1835. Nowadays it is a set of ruins, that the only thing it has that can be repared is a piece of the facade.

In the 15th. century, some of the inhabitants of Marçà started to live down the hill. The inhabitants took the stones of the old village to build up the new one. Finally, the village was placed in its modern place in the 18th. century.

At the end of the 18th. century, even though the population experienced a demographic increase, the village had serious troubles to pay its taxes. Carrasclet was a guerrilla fighter who used to live in Marçà with his wife (who was also his daughter), started to fight against Felipe V.

At the end of the 19th. century, the filoxera plaque deeply hurt the county, but Marçà did not result so bad affected because of the railway arrived to Marçà in 1891. This smoothed the crisis, and became for some years the best way to buy or sell the agricultural products of the Priorat.

The Fiesta Mayor is celebrated on the 15th. of August. The patrones is the Virgen, and the had three traditions for this date,as the desfile de carrozas, the lavender and the fiesta de la vejez.

San Juan's Day is celebrated with a public dinner.

The Diada, on the 11th.of September, is celebrated with a public breakfast at the Arenas' Square.

The Winter Fiesta Mayor takes place in Marçà on the 27th. of December, and the patroness is the Virgen de las Enfermedades. There is a special song for the day before, called "Completas", that consists on some short parts from the municipality, and the Aurora procession that starts just at the beginning of the day, and is exclusively for men. There are two more processions, the Rosario and the one of the Fiesta Mayor.

The Día de Reyes (on the 6th. of January) is also celebrated in Marçà.

Basically, the buildings in Marçà are made of stone of Mil.loquera, and have strong and wide walls. Most of them have three floors and some of them have big arcades.

The Council Town was built in 1888 and has three floors. Due to the bad conditions within it, it is being restored and it only has the outside walls.

Santa María's Church style is the neoclassical, but it has some baroque elements. It was built in the middles of the 18th. century. The belfry (from 1930) shows 4 clocks. The San Juan Bautista's sculpture, situed at Fornícula, was made by Marcel.lí Giné, a sculptor from Marçà.

The Cooperativa Agrícola is made of stone and bricks.

The Museo Municipal is a four floored building which was built in 1891. It was restored in 1996, ant it was inaugurated in 1997. Within the museam we can see the way that the stone walls were made. It is built in a memory to the scculptors of Marçà Giné and Lula Pérez. On the third floor, there is an exhibition of archeological ruins which were found by some people from Marçà, and some pictures of Josep Sancho y Piqué, who was born in Marçà and died in 1959. We can also find a room where there are either exhibitions, meetings or conferences. The Museo-Celler of Baltasar Vendrell exhibites some tools to work in the fields.

The public "lavaderos were built in 1864, near the fountain, which has been always giving water from 1864, and that allows the animals to drink.

The farms are very peculiar: the Masía del Crusar, the Masía de Magriñá, the Masía de Figueres, the Masía Gran, etc.

There are some houses inside the village that were built in the 18th. century.

The Mil.loquera is a small hill. Its abysses are one hundred metres deep, and are very interesting to pracctise the speleology. The Heura abyss and the Cereret are very important. To reach them there is a nice way to go for a walk, called the Camino del Calvario, which goes trought the Bassa del Castell, the Mirador, and the sculptor Giné's house. On the hill, we can see the ruins of the castle.

The natural forest has a beautiful wood. In the Brugueras we can go in a trip trough the forest to see the caves del Xollat, the Corb stone, the strait del Catà, the Mola, the Llabería mountain range, etc.

There is another place of interest called The Tres Batlles Fountain". This name has a peculiar origin: the three mayors of the three neighbour villages, Colldejou, Marçà and Tivissa, met there so as to discuss about policies and parties.

The Palissa is a small dam of red land, in the Conca de la Riera de Marçà. Some families choose this place to spend the day in the countryside, because it offers the possibility of making excursions.

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