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Castle of Aguilar

Aguilar de Segarra, Bages, Barcelona

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Castle of Aguilar

Monument · Aguilar de Segarra, Bages, Barcelona

Aguilar castle, already documented in 983, stands on the hill of the old cemetery of Aguilar de Segarra, in the south-east of the Bages, in a spot that served as an excellent lookout over the valley and that formed part of the defensive system used in the comarca against the Saracens in the 10th century. It was a lordship of the Cervera family during the 11th and 12th centuries, and well into the 14th the provost of the chapter of the Seu de Manresa bought its jurisdiction from King Peter III, keeping it until well into the 17th century. Of the fortress only a few fragments of finely worked ashlar wall remain, not far from the church of Sant Andreu, whose original building was destroyed during the Spanish Civil War; once the war ended the present-day church was built, opened in April 1949.

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