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Tower of el carrer Ample

Arenys de Mar, Maresme, Barcelona

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Tower of el carrer Ample

Monument · Arenys de Mar, Maresme, Barcelona

The Carrer Ample tower rises on a street of terraced houses in Arenys de Mar, next to a fortified house that has since disappeared. The ground floor, quadrangular in plan, is adjoined to the neighbouring houses and today serves as a garage and storeroom for a food shop; the two upper floors are cylindrical in plan, with a weathered stone balcony on the second and a small window on the third, beneath a series of corbels running along the crowning. Inside, a Gothic ribbed vault is preserved. It was built in the second half of the 16th century and is popularly known as the Torre de la Palla.

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