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Ca l'Amar de la Torre

Arenys de Munt, Maresme, Barcelona

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Ca l'Amar de la Torre

Monument · Arenys de Munt, Maresme, Barcelona

Ca l'Amar de la Torre is a fortified farmhouse in the municipality of Arenys de Munt, in the Maresme, set in a rural environment surrounded by farmland. It comprises three sections and three storeys, ground floor, first floor and attic, with a square defence tower on the left side that rises one storey above the rest and is topped with battlements; above the tower's lintelled entrance door there is a stone shield bearing the family's emblem, a tower. The entrance to the house is voussoired, of granite, and the other openings are lintelled. Towers like this one were built to withstand the Turkish danger and the growing banditry, and Ca l'Amar is today one of the few defence towers remaining in the town. A window above the round-arched doorway bears the date 1632.

Photo: Enric (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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