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Castle of les Besses

Cervià de les Garrigues, Garrigues, Lleida

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Castle of les Besses

Monument · Cervià de les Garrigues, Garrigues, Lleida

Image of Cervià de les Garrigues, not of the place itself.

13th-century castle on a rocky promontory, documented since 1151 and resettled in 1225 by Arnau Punyet and his wife Marquesa with five families obliged to fortify the place; in the 14th century it passed under the dominion of the monastery of Poblet, which held it until the 19th-century disentailments. After the War of the Spanish Succession its inhabitants moved to neighboring Cervià. Today it is an archaeological complex with remains of the castle, a mill, and a church, with the best-preserved stretch of wall standing 1.5 m high.

Photo: Damià alentorn (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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