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Walls of the Town of el Cogul

el Cogul, Garrigues, Lleida

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Walls of the Town of el Cogul

Monument · el Cogul, Garrigues, Lleida

Image of el Cogul, not of the place itself.

Remains of the walls of the fortified core of El Cogul, from the 12th century, today barely recognisable among the modern buildings next to the church. Declared an asset of national cultural interest, they are preserved beneath Vileta street —formerly called the castle street— and in the north-western area of the church square, the original historic centre of the settlement; they consist of large stone ashlars, well squared and joined with mortar. The place and castle of El Cogul paid tithes to the abbot of Poblet from 1186, and in 1306 abbot Pere d'Alferic received it through the sale by Bertran de Solanelles; in 1385 Jaume de Pallars sold his jurisdiction over El Cogul to the monastery, a transfer confirmed by Peter III and John I. The place belonged to Poblet until the abolition of the lordships in 1835.

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