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Castle of Quermançó

Vilajuïga, Alt Empordà, Girona

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Castle of Quermançó

Monument · Vilajuïga, Alt Empordà, Girona

The castell de Quermançó is an isolated fortification on a steep crag, two kilometres north of Vilajuïga, inaccessible from the west and south; it is an example of the early medieval Catalan castles capable of withstanding the siege of forces far superior to the few defenders that its enclosure could hold. It belonged to the counts of Empúries: Ponce I installed the county's diplomatic archive there and, by a will of 1078, left the castle to his sons Hugo and Berenguer. From Dalmau Berenguer de Quermançó, documented since 1099, descends the lineage of the viscounts later called of Rocabertí. In 1288 it was briefly occupied by a French army in the service of James II of Mallorca. Declared Bien Cultural de Interés Nacional (Catalonia's highest level of heritage protection), it preserves walls, the base of the keep and a cistern.

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