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Castle of Montanissell

Coll de Nargó, Alt Urgell, Lleida

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Castle of Montanissell

Monument · Coll de Nargó, Alt Urgell, Lleida

Image of Coll de Nargó, not of the place itself.

Remains of a fortress, documented since the year 966, on a hill south of Montanissell overlooking the vall de les Culles and the Fontanet river; part of a tower survives. The castle's church, today Gothic, was built over an earlier Romanesque or pre-Romanesque one. A Bien Cultural de Interés Nacional (Catalonia's top heritage-protection category).

Photo: La Bústia dels Raiers, Coll de Nargó, Lleida (Public domain)

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