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Vulpellac

Forallac, Baix Empordà, Girona

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Vulpellac

Village · Forallac, Baix Empordà, Girona

Vulpellac is a hamlet in the municipality of Forallac, in the Baix Empordà comarca, province of Girona, and houses the current town hall. It has a little over two hundred inhabitants. It was an independent municipality until 1977, when it joined Fonteta and Peratallada to form Forallac. Its old quarter is declared Bien Cultural de Interés Nacional (Catalonia's highest level of heritage protection): it was enclosed by a walled precinct, largely lost in the reforms of the 15th and 16th centuries, of which stretches of wall and the square-plan gate tower still survive. The complex is dominated by the castle-palace, documented since the 9th century and remodelled between the 15th and 16th centuries by the Sarriera family, who turned it into a sumptuous Gothic-Renaissance palace, next to the church of Sant Julià i Santa Basilissa.

Photo: Josep Renalias (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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