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Castle of Odèn

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Castle of Odèn

Monument · Odèn, Solsonès, Lleida

A castle documented since 1073 as "castri Odenne", above the parish church of Santa Cecília d'Odèn, in the municipal term of Odèn. In 1116 Count Ermengol VI of Urgell pledged the castle's franchises to Mir Arnau for 200 sous, and the latter, together with his wife and children, donated the castle and its church to the monastery of Santa Maria de Solsona in 1134; in 1208 Ermengol VIII also bequeathed his masos to the same canonry. In 1375 it passed to the county of Cardona, and in 1563, by arrangement of its last owner, Jeroni Solà, it returned to the canonry of Solsona, which restored it in 1621. Attached to its south façade it preserves a chapel dedicated to Sant Jaume, with a rectangular nave and pointed vault, whose masonry points to the 11th or 12th century.

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