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Castle of Vallmoll

Vallmoll, Alt Camp, Tarragona

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Castle of Vallmoll

Monument · Vallmoll, Alt Camp, Tarragona

The castle of Vallmoll, a border castle that gives the municipality its name, stands beside the urban fabric and presides over the oldest cluster of houses in the upper part of the vila. Its origins go back to the 11th century, in the time of the Reconquest, when the castle and its territory belonged to the Castellvell and later to the Montcada; at the end of the 12th century a Hospitaller commandery was established there. It later passed to the Cardona and, from the 17th to the 19th century, to the counts of Peralada and the marquises of Bellpuig; in the 1940s it was acquired by the Vallmoll town council for 10,000 pesetas. It preserves the perimeter enclosure and part of the rectangular towers that flanked it, in an almost ruinous state and undergoing restoration.

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