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Royal Palace of Vilafranca (Vinseum)

Vilafranca del Penedès, Alt Penedès, Barcelona

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Royal Palace of Vilafranca (Vinseum)

Monument · Vilafranca del Penedès, Alt Penedès, Barcelona

The Palau Reial of Vilafranca del Penedès, on the Plaça de Jaume I, is listed as a cultural asset of national interest and is today the main seat of the Vinseum, the museum of the wine cultures of Catalonia. It was a residence of the kings of the House of Barcelona in the 13th century: already documented in 1209, in 1236 James I granted it to his castellan Fructià de Palau, with the obligation to house the king and his successors. King Peter the Great died there on 11 November 1285, as the chronicler Ramon Muntaner recounts, commemorated by a plaque on the facade since 1907. In 1308 it was acquired by the monastery of Santes Creus, which turned it into a Cistercian procuratorship; after the friars' exclaustration in 1820 it passed into private hands until, in 1936, it was bought by the Museu de Vilafranca association.

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