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The Tower of Les Preses

Les Preses, Garrotxa, Girona

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The Tower of Les Preses

Monument · Les Preses, Garrotxa, Girona

Image of Les Preses, not of the place itself.

La Torre, in les Preses (Garrotxa), is a fortified manor house, today a farmhouse, made up of two blocks: one tower-shaped, with a gabled roof; the other with a Gothic window, a small voussoir-arched doorway facing the defence tower, and two large windows. The walls, 45 centimetres thick, are partly built of rammed earth; a hayloft and a threshing floor are also preserved. The earliest documentation dates from 1180. In 1358, Ramon de Camps became lord of the Mas Camps and of la Torre, and went on to hold the batllia (bailiff's office) of les Preses, which he reserved for his eldest son Pere. The Montagut family later held the batllia: in 1523 Miquel Marc de Montagut passed it to his son Bartomeu, who around 1550 leased it out until 1564. The tower housed a prison maintained at the expense of the monastery of Sant Benet de Bages.

Photo: David Poblador i Garcia from Barcelona (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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