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Little Tower of the Moors

Castellcir, Moianès, Barcelona

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Little Tower of the Moors

Monument · Castellcir, Moianès, Barcelona

Romanesque tower, also called la Torrassa, located on the right bank of the Castellcir stream (Moianès), about 600 metres north of Ca l'Antoja and a kilometre from the castle of Castellcir. It is a collapsed circular tower of which only about a quarter of the circle survives; the original diameter was around 8 or 9 metres, with walls about 2 metres thick that narrowed towards the top, and it must have reached about 14 metres in height, of which only 4.5 remain today. At its foot are the remains of a wall that may have closed an enclosure measuring 22 by 17 metres. According to the Generalitat's Heritage records, it would have been a link tower between the castle of Tenes and the castle of Castellcir, although other conjectures identify it with the castle of Tenes itself.

Photo: Gustau Erill i Pinyot (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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