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Tower of els Encantats

Arenys de Mar, Maresme, Barcelona

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Tower of els Encantats

Monument · Arenys de Mar, Maresme, Barcelona

The Torre dels Encantats is a 13th-century fortress located on the coast of Arenys de Mar (Maresme, Barcelona), around which an Iberian settlement of the Laietani tribe was discovered in 1881, at Puig Castellar. Excavations directed from 1930 by Josep Maria Pons i Guri established that the site was inhabited between the 5th century and the mid-1st century BC; silos, dwellings, an iron foundry and more than forty ceramic loom weights for vertical looms have been found there. During the Civil War part of its stones were used to build coastal batteries.

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