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Tower of Gavadà

Vandellòs i l'Hospitalet de l'Infant, Baix Camp, Tarragona

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Tower of Gavadà

Monument · Vandellòs i l'Hospitalet de l'Infant, Baix Camp, Tarragona

Image of Vandellòs i l'Hospitalet de l'Infant, not of the place itself.

The Torre de Gavadà is a monument protected as a bien cultural de interés nacional (Catalonia's designation for cultural heritage of national interest) in Vandellòs i l'Hospitalet de l'Infant (Baix Camp), on a hillside above the settlement of Gavadà, whose valley it overlooks. It is circular in plan and retains the ground-floor vault, spiralling in the manner of the comarca, which supported a first floor now lost; it has an interior diameter of 4.1 metres and walls 120 centimetres thick, with an elevation of about six metres. It has a ground-level door towards the ruins of an old mas with which it appears to have been connected by a raised walkway. It is thought to have been a 16th-century tower that communicated with the Torre de Genessies; in 1606 it was the scene of a clash between bandits and the inhabitants of the neighbouring house. Now abandoned: it had 123 inhabitants in 1900 and 25 in 1950.

Photo: Deosringas (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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