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Dovecote Tower of Bescaran

les Valls de Valira, Alt Urgell, Lleida

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Dovecote Tower of Bescaran

Monument · les Valls de Valira, Alt Urgell, Lleida

The Torre Colomer de Bescaran is an old dovecote of medieval origin above the village of Bescaran, at 1360 metres above sea level, with an interior space of three by four metres and walls 70 centimetres thick, of unhewn local stone except at the corners. Inside it holds some six hundred and sixty nesting holes for breeding pigeons, arranged in regular rows, with a window at about four metres in height and two rows of slate slabs running along the upper part of the building. A land register of Bescaran from 1497 already records the name Palomera for the plot where it stands; the dovecote was linked to the viscounty of Castellbò. It has been a Bien Cultural de Interés Nacional (Catalonia's highest level of heritage protection) since 1988.

Photo: Ferran Llorens (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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