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Cal Xamanet

Pontons, Alt Penedès, Barcelona

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Cal Xamanet

Monument · Pontons, Alt Penedès, Barcelona

Farmhouse situated in the upper part of the territory of Pontons, in the hamlet of Campdàsens; together with the towers of Cal Rei and Can Guixó it forms a group of farmhouses organised around a medieval defence tower to which it is attached. Almost square in plan, it has three storeys under a gabled roof; the entrance door, facing south, must have been topped by a voussoired arch now hard to make out because it is charred. It retains buttresses and arrow slits, and at the corners, large, well-cut ashlars. No documentary record survives of its exact origin, although it lay within the territory of the castle of Pontons and probably formed part of the possessions of the monastery of Santes Creus. The building, much altered, remains inhabited.

Photo: Angela Llop (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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