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Castle of Llobera

Llobera, Solsonès, Lleida

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Castle of Llobera

Monument · Llobera, Solsonès, Lleida

The castle of Llobera stands on a hill west of the parish church of Sant Pere, in the settlement of Llobera, in the Solsonès, declared a Bien Cultural de Interés Nacional (Catalonia's highest level of heritage protection). Rectangular in plan, it measures 15.70 by 7.90 metres, with walls about 130 centimetres thick and a surviving height of between 6 and 8 metres; it is dated to around the 13th century. The main door, 156 centimetres wide, opens with a semicircular arch of thirteen voussoirs. The earliest documents on the castle and its lords date from the 11th century: in 1002 Sanç de Llobera and his wife established a mas on the site. The family took part, alongside the count of Urgell, in the siege of Balaguer, and Sanç de Llobera in the 1149 siege of Lleida; the castle later passed to the dukes of Cardona.

Photo: Isidre blanc (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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