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Castle of Rupit

Rupit i Pruit, Osona, Barcelona

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Castle of Rupit

Monument · Rupit i Pruit, Osona, Barcelona

Castle situated in the middle of the village of Rupit, on an irregular crag behind the parish church, an eleventh-century successor to the castle of Fàbregues, documented since 968. After its abandonment, the castle of Rupit is documented under its own name from 1040. It belonged to the viscounts of Cardona, to the counts of Pallars and to the Cruïlles family, related to the marquises of Risbourg; in 1681 Charles II honoured Antonio de Bournonville as marquis of Rupit, a title that later passed to the counts of Aranda. It survived the fifteenth-century Catalan civil war, but it is not known when it was lost. The houses of the village were built around it, which today prevents access to its remains, reduced to courses of wall within a perimeter of about 300 square metres.

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