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Tower of Can Faixat

Viladasens, Gironès, Girona

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Tower of Can Faixat

Monument · Viladasens, Gironès, Girona

Image of Viladasens, not of the place itself.

A fortified farmhouse documented since 1254 with a battlemented, square-based tower that preserves original 13th-century walls; the poet Antonio Machado spent his last night in Spain here before crossing into France in January 1939. Declared bien cultural de interés nacional (Catalonia's highest level of heritage protection), the defensive tower rises at the north-eastern corner of the farmhouse, of almost rectangular plan and about six by five metres, with access through a small round-arched door reached by a stone staircase. On one of the house's doors the date 1612 is inscribed, from a later restoration. The Faixat family has owned it since its founding, as documents from the 13th century prove, and during the last Carlist war it sheltered numerous followers of that cause.

Photo: Araceli Merino (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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