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Castle of Vinfaro

Alfés, Segrià, Lleida

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Castle of Vinfaro

Monument · Alfés, Segrià, Lleida

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The castle of Vinfaro stands at the eastern end of the tossal (hill) of the same name, opposite Alfés, on the other side of the river Set. Documented since 1148, when Count Ramon Berenguer IV granted it to Arnau de Montpaó, it passed through several families of Lleida until, in the early 17th century, it came into the hands of the Riquer family, marquises of Benavent; at that time it had barely two houses, and after the War of the Spanish Succession it was left depopulated with only a single masía (farmhouse). Of the enclosure, separated from the rest of the hill by a moat 12 m wide and 3 m deep, stretches of wall survive, along with the remains of a rectangular fortification and the vestiges of a possible cistern; the oldest section, from the 12th century, may have been a tower of Islamic origin reused after the Christian conquest.

Photo: Deosringas (CC BY-SA 3.0 es)

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