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Castle of Hostoles

Les Planes d'Hostoles, Garrotxa, Girona

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Castle of Hostoles

Monument · Les Planes d'Hostoles, Garrotxa, Girona

The Castell d'Hostoles stands in the Hostoles valley, between the municipalities of Les Planes d'Hostoles and Sant Feliu de Pallerols, in the Garrotxa; today only ruins of the fortification remain, the historic seat of the barony bearing its name. Documented since the early 11th century under the castellan Mir d'Hostoles, vassal of the Count of Barcelona, it passed in 1212 to the Cartellà family through the marriage of Dolça d'Hostoles, and in 1313 to the Rocabertí family. It was occupied by the remences in 1463, during the Catalan civil war, and returned to the crown after the Sentence of Guadalupe of 1488. It preserves three enclosures: the oldest with a semicircular tower and a cistern, another with towers pierced by arrow slits, and a third from the 14th-15th centuries that protected the inner courtyard; recent works have consolidated the ruins.

Photo: Antoni Grifol (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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