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Castle of Calaf

Calaf, Anoia, Barcelona

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Castle of Calaf

Monument · Calaf, Anoia, Barcelona

The castle of Calaf crowns the upper part of the town, on a hill from which the village and the plain crossed by important communication routes could be overlooked; it is considered one of the most notable fortifications in the comarca. After the devastations of Almanzor, Count Ramón Borrell and Countess Ermesenda handed over the territory of la Segarra around 1010–1015 to the bishop of Vic to resettle it, and it remained under the feudal rule of the bishops of Vic and, from 1375, of the viscounts of Cardona. It is a polygonal fortification with five sides, about 28 metres wide, with walls up to 300 centimetres thick made of large squared ashlar blocks, preserved in stretches more than ten metres high. Reduced to ruin in 1781, it has been the subject of restoration work.

Photo: Enric (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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