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What to see and do in Vulpellac (Forallac)

What to see and do in Vulpellac (Forallac) (Baix Empordà, Girona): 2 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

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Castle of Vulpellac 50 m

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What to see and do in Vulpellac (Forallac)

Castle of Vulpellac
Monument
The castle-palace of Vulpellac, in the medieval core of the municipality of Forallac (Baix Empordà, Girona), has medieval origins: as early as 1137 Gausbert Guillem de Vulpellac is documented, and in 1269 an agreement between the lord of the place and the bishop of Girona provided for its fortification. In 1533 Miquel Sarriera transformed it into a Renaissance castle-palace, rebuilding much of the fortress on a tower that retains 13th-14th-century masonry and opus spicatum foundations that could date back to the 9th-10th centuries. The building, of two storeys in three wings around a trapezoidal courtyard, retains remains of its wall and a 16th-century chapel with ribbed vaulting, pentagonal apse and the coats of arms of the Sarriera family. It is declared a bien cultural de interès nacional (a cultural property of national interest).
Church of Sant Julià i Santa Basilissa
Monument
The church of Sant Julià i Santa Basilissa stands next to the castle of Vulpellac (Forallac, Baix Empordà), of which it was originally the chapel, today separated from it by a railing; it is believed that a Romanesque church previously stood there. The present building, with a single nave with external buttresses and an apse polygonal inside and semicircular outside, was built in the 16th century in late Gothic style, with Renaissance and Baroque additions. The pointed-arch doorway, on the west façade of worked ashlar, shows in its archivolts plant reliefs and human heads; inside, with ribbed vaulting, the coat of arms of the Sarriera family is preserved, and in the northwest corner there is an unfinished gable bell tower. Declared a bien de interés cultural (a property of cultural interest) on 3 June 1931.