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Castle of Ferran

Estaràs, Segarra, Lleida

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Castle of Ferran

Monument · Estaràs, Segarra, Lleida

Castle situated at the top of the settlement of Ferran, in the municipality of Estaràs, declared a Bien Cultural de Interés Nacional (Catalonia's highest level of heritage protection). It is known of since the mid-11th century, when the Cervera family held it from the count of Cerdanya; between 1068 and 1095 Hug Dalmau de Cervera and his wife swore fidelity to Count Guillem Ramon I of Cerdanya for this castle and others in the comarca. The Cervera family remained lords of the district in the 12th century, now under the count of Barcelona; in the will of Ramon Berenguer III, dated 1130, the castle appears as a domain of the counts of Barcelona. In the second half of the 13th century it passed to the viscounts of Cardona, until the abolition of jurisdictional lordships. Today only its ruins remain at the top of the village of Ferran.

Photo: Isidre blanc (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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