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Can Draper

l'Ametlla del Vallès, Vallès Oriental, Barcelona

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Can Draper

Monument · l'Ametlla del Vallès, Vallès Oriental, Barcelona

Can Draper is a fortified farmhouse in the south of the municipality of l'Ametlla del Vallès (Vallès Oriental), listed as Bien Cultural de Interés Nacional (Catalonia's highest level of heritage protection) since 1949, which gives its name to the municipality's main population center. Documented since 1151 as Mas Barceló, it took its current name in 1393, when Ramon Draper married the heiress of the house; its present appearance, with the enclosed courtyard and the protective tower, is due to the 16th-century extension, and the tower bears the engraved date of its construction, 26 May 1574, by Jaume Draper. The farmhouse preserves Gothic elements such as windows, portals and the chapel of the Virgin of the Rosary, whose Gothic altarpiece disappeared during the Civil War of 1936. Within the estate an artificial ice house from the 17th-19th centuries is also preserved.

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