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Castle of Fontanilles (el Castellot)

Fontanilles, Baix Empordà, Girona

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Castle of Fontanilles (el Castellot)

Monument · Fontanilles, Baix Empordà, Girona

Image of Fontanilles, not of the place itself.

El Castellot is the popular name for the remains of a 12th-century castle situated in the municipality of Fontanilles (Baix Empordà), atop a small hill. Of the old castle only one wing survives, today integrated into a two-storey house built of stone blocks and lime mortar and roofed with Arabic tiles, which has gradually been extended with new living quarters. In front of the house can be seen several stretches of low walls that do not allow a certain reconstruction of the layout of the original enclosure, which must have occupied the whole upper part of the hill, and at the north-east end the base of a circular tower can still be made out. In the early 20th century, in 1904, the vault that supported the nave was removed, which later made it necessary to reinforce the side walls with buttresses.

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