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Castle of Figuerola

Figuerola del Camp, Alt Camp, Tarragona

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Castle of Figuerola

Monument · Figuerola del Camp, Alt Camp, Tarragona

Image of Figuerola del Camp, not of the place itself.

The castell of Figuerola, which gives its name to Figuerola del Camp (Alt Camp, Tarragona), stood on the southern slope of the Serra de Miramar; the place name already appears in 980 in a document of Count Borrell II of Barcelona, and the castle is documented since the 12th century, when it formed a territorial unit together with the castles of Miramar and Prenafeta. It was in the hands of the Puigverd family until 1271, the year in which Berenguer de Puigverd donated it, together with Prenafeta and Miramar, to the monastery of Poblet, a donation confirmed in 1297 and ratified by arbitration in 1338. No old wall is preserved, though the name of the carrer del Castell and the era del Castell (threshing floor) still survive.

Photo: Alberto-g-rovi (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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