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Castle of el Vilosell

el Vilosell, Garrigues, Lleida

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Castle of el Vilosell

Monument · el Vilosell, Garrigues, Lleida

Image of el Vilosell, not of the place itself.

A castle crowning the circular, formerly walled core of El Vilosell, on the border of les Garrigues with the Conca de Barberà. Its first documentary mention is from 1067, as a Muslim settlement dependent on Siurana; after the conquest of Lleida in 1149 it was colonised on a feudal basis, with population confirmed in 1184. In 1179 Alfonso I handed it to Guillem de Cervera, who ceded half of it to Pere Besora as castellan; the latter donated it in 1196 to the monastery of Poblet, which in 1217 bought the full lordship of the place. Remodelled in the 16th century, from the 18th century onward its stones were reused for the village houses, so that today only the southern slope survives, popularly known as l'Enjuba, with a lookout point built in 1991.

Photo: jordi domènech (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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