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Castle of Castelló de Farfanya

Castelló de Farfanya, Noguera, Lleida

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Castle of Castelló de Farfanya

Monument · Castelló de Farfanya, Noguera, Lleida

The castle of Castelló de Farfanya, which gives its name to the municipality, crowns a 386-metre-high promontory overlooking the town, in the comarca of la Noguera. Already occupied in Iberian times, it was an Islamic fortress conquered from the Saracens in 1115-1116 by Viscount Guerau II of Cabrera, with control consolidated around 1130. In 1415 Ferdinand I of Antequera sold the lordship to the Count of Foix, which later passed to the Dukes of Alba, and during the Reapers' War (1640-1652) it went through several warlike episodes; by 1840 it was already in ruins. Today it preserves stretches of a 13-metre-high semicircular Islamic wall, feudal circular towers and the chamber called the Cavalleria, with barrel vaults, as well as adjoining watchtowers.

Photo: Baldiri (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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