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Castle of Muntanyola

Muntanyola, Osona, Barcelona

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Castle of Muntanyola

Monument · Muntanyola, Osona, Barcelona

Image of Muntanyola, not of the place itself.

The Castell de Muntanyola, also known as Mas el Castell, is in fact a farmhouse with sixteenth-century elements and an eighteenth-century chapel, raised on the ruins of an earlier castle destroyed by an earthquake in 1448. Rectangular in plan and with a two-pitched roof, it has its entrance portal facing southwest, voussoired and topped by a window with Gothic mouldings; on the right open ancient vaults now used as stables, reached through a portal that closes the tilting yard, beneath brick arches that support two-storey galleries. On the north wall stand out windows carved with the silhouette of a castle, a reminder of the original stronghold. Despite some later additions, the complex is well preserved.

Photo: Vincent van Zeijst (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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