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Tower of la Panadella

Montmaneu, Anoia, Barcelona

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Tower of la Panadella

Monument · Montmaneu, Anoia, Barcelona

A defence and watchtower located at the Coll de la Panadella pass, in Montmaneu, comarca of Anoia, at a strategic crossing point towards the Segarra that controlled the old royal road to Lleida. Despite its appearance of an old fortification, popularly known as el Castellot, studies place it in the 19th century, built to watch over the road during the Peninsular War and the Carlist Wars, and it came to be used as an optical telegraph tower between Barcelona and Lleida. Circular in plan, today it retains barely four or five metres in height, built of local stone. In the same area, the village of la Panadella, at about 710 metres above sea level, marks the watershed between the Segre and the Llobregat and the boundary between the eastern and western Catalan dialects.

Photo: Jordiferrer (CC BY-SA 3.0 es)

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