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Castle of Avinyó

Avinyonet del Penedès, Alt Penedès, Barcelona

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Castle of Avinyó

Monument · Avinyonet del Penedès, Alt Penedès, Barcelona

The castle of Avinyó, in the municipality of Avinyonet del Penedès, stood on a hill near the church of Sant Pere, where the Can Porràfols farmhouse now stands and where foundations and wall remains were found. It already existed in the 10th century as a dependency of the castle of Olèrdola; it was probably destroyed in the Almoravid raid of 1108, and in 1156 Ramon Berenguer IV granted the place to Berenguer d'Avinyó so that he might build houses and a castle there. It later passed to the lords of la Granada, to the monastery of Poblet and to the Pia Almoina of Barcelona, becoming royal property in the 17th century until the abolition of feudal lordships. No physical trace remains, not even of the hill on which it stood, levelled in recent times for agricultural use. It has been an Asset of National Cultural Interest since 1949.

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