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Castle of Vilademany

Aiguaviva, Gironès, Girona

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Castle of Vilademany

Monument · Aiguaviva, Gironès, Girona

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The castle of Vilademany is an old head-of-district castle documented in 1116, in the municipality of Aiguaviva, of which today only some foundations survive in front of the mas Forroll, a building that probably occupies its site and to which the old chapel of the castle, Sant Jaume de Vilademany, is attached. The first reference to the Vilademany lineage, lords of lands in the Gironès and la Selva, dates from 1269, and they resided in the castle at least until the first half of the 14th century. The mas Forroll may have been built around the 15th century; its façade bears the dates 1555 and 1564, and on the chapel door, reopened to the west, an inscription can be read with a coat of arms invoking Sant Jaume, dated 1564. The stone of the hermitage was cleaned and restored around 1986.

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