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Tower of la Corriu

Guixers, Solsonès, Lleida

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Tower of la Corriu

Monument · Guixers, Solsonès, Lleida

A fortified house documented since the year 839, when the site appears in the consecration act of the Seu d'Urgell cathedral as illa Currize, in the municipal term of Guixers, east of the settlement of la Corriu and at the foot of the cliff of l'Espluga. The original construction, probably the residence of a lord or a well-off peasant around the 13th century, was abandoned after the late medieval demographic crisis and was reused in the 18th century to build the present-day masia, three storeys high with walls a metre thick of well-cut ashlar. Of the medieval building, which must have exceeded ten metres in height, only the south and west walls survive, at the southwest corner of the modern building; a cemetery was also found beside the tower. Declared a bien cultural de interés nacional (Catalonia's highest level of heritage protection).

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