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Castle of Ceuró

Castellar de la Ribera, Solsonès, Lleida

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Castle of Ceuró

Monument · Castellar de la Ribera, Solsonès, Lleida

A castle set atop a hill on the ridge of the left bank of the Ribera Salada, beside the 11th-century Romanesque church of Sant Julià de Ceuró, with which it forms a group together with a large house and the rectory, in the municipality of Castellar de la Ribera. Documented in 1188, when a bull of Pope Clement III cites it as property of the church of Santa María de Solsona, it belonged to a Castilian family that in 1215 went on to buy rights over the castle of Altés, and in 1218 held rights over other castles such as Meda, Navès, Oliana or Ogern. It preserves some old battered retaining walls. Much altered, today it cannot be freely visited because it functions as a rural hotel, a gastronomic venue and a nature classroom; it is a Bien Cultural de Interés Nacional (Catalonia's highest level of heritage protection).

Photo: Isidre blanc (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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