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Granyanella, Segarra, Lleida

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Saportella Tower

Monument · Granyanella, Segarra, Lleida

The tower of Saportella, also called Molí de la Torre, is a large fortified manor house of Granyanella, in the Segarra, declared a Bien Cultural de Interés Nacional (Catalonia's highest level of heritage protection). It stands on the right bank of the Ondara river and was originally, in the 14th century, a mill, of which only part of the tower survives, with defensive arrow slits. Square in plan and three storeys high, the entrance door, with a voussoired round arch, bears the coat of arms of the Vilallonga family. It was the head of an autonomous division of the district of the castle of la Curullada, whose first known lords, the Saportella family, gave it its name. In the 17th century, Clemencia de Saportella married Francisco de Vilallonga, lord of Estaràs; in 1708 her heir was named count of Vilallonga de Saportella by Archduke Charles of Austria.

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