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Former Templar and Hospitaller Palace

el Palau d'Anglesola, Pla d'Urgell, Lleida

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Former Templar and Hospitaller Palace

Monument · el Palau d'Anglesola, Pla d'Urgell, Lleida

Image of el Palau d'Anglesola, not of the place itself.

Former palace-castle that gives its name to the municipality of el Palau d'Anglesola. Its origins appear to lie in an Arab palace or almunia which, during the conquest of the territory by the counts of Barcelona in the second half of the 11th century, was occupied by Ramon Gombau d'Anglesola in 1084. In 1405 the Avignon pope Benedict XIII created, together with this town, l'Espluga Calba and Sidamon, the Hospitaller commandery of l'Espluga Calba, thereby linking it to the Hospitaller order in addition to the Templars. The town's palace-castle was remodelled in the 17th century, work that gave it much of its present appearance.

Photo: Joan Ramon Alsina (Public domain)

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