Logbook · 4 places

Castle of Clariana de Cardener

Clariana de Cardener, Solsonès, Lleida

1 Villages · 1 Monuments · 1 Nature · 1 Activities

Spain › Catalonia › Lleida › Solsonès › Clariana de Cardener › Castle of Clariana de Cardener

Castle of Clariana de Cardener

Monument · Clariana de Cardener, Solsonès, Lleida

The castle of Clariana de Cardener, from the 11th century, crowns a hill above the plain of Flotats, where the Cardener and the Negre river meet, of great strategic importance: from there signals were sent to the castles of Navès, Solsona, Pinós and Cardona. The castles of Clariana and Cardona already appear in a document of 879-890, and it belonged to the viscountal family of Cardona. In 1010 the bishop of Vic, Arnulf, bequeathed his properties in Cardona and Clariana; in 1026 Viscount Bermon I left the castle to his brother Guillem, and in the early 13th century its lord was Arnau de Cardona. It preserves deteriorated walls mixed with later constructions, among them a keep above the old access gateway, next to the original church of Sant Serni, documented since 1035, today in ruins and abandoned in 1927.

Photo: Solde (CC BY-SA 3.0 es)

What to see and do in Clariana de Cardener