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New Castle of Beuda del Pla

Beuda, Garrotxa, Girona

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New Castle of Beuda del Pla

Monument · Beuda, Garrotxa, Girona

The Castell Nou de Beuda del Pla, declared a Bien Cultural de Interés Nacional (Spain's highest level of heritage protection), was built in the 15th century near the village church by the Queixàs family, lords of the domain, enlarging an earlier building with Gothic elements; its façade still bears the family coat of arms, which is why it is also known as mas Queixàs. It replaced as the family residence the former rock castle of El Castellot, documented since the 14th century in the hands of the same family. It consists of three sections of differing heights: the main one, rectangular in plan, retains a doorway with a voussoired round arch and windows with Gothic decoration; it is completed by a three-storey keep, whose old battlements were walled up in a renovation that replaced them with a flat roof.

Photo: Antoni Grifol (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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