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Castle of Sisquer

Guixers, Solsonès, Lleida

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Castle of Sisquer

Monument · Guixers, Solsonès, Lleida

A "termenat" castle of the 10th century, documented as "Siscano" in the Urgell capbreu of 948 and as "Sischer" in the consecration act of its cathedral; the place-name element quer refers to a site already inhabited in Iberian times. In 1040 the consecration act of the monastery of Sant Sadurní de Tavèrnoles records that the church of Sisquer was dependent on that Benedictine house. Around 1200 the territory, previously belonging to the count of Urgell, passed to the viscounty of Cardona, and in 1375 it came under the new county of Peter the Ceremonious; in the 17th century it was the batllia of Morunys. It must have stood on the hill facing the present-day parish church, a small space, perhaps only for a defensive tower, from which the basin of the Aigua de Valls is dominated. Today only one stone wall survives, damaged by the roots of a tree.

Photo: Isidre blanc (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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