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Castle of Albinyana

Albinyana, Baix Penedès, Tarragona

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Castle of Albinyana

Monument · Albinyana, Baix Penedès, Tarragona

The Castell d'Albinyana is a castell termenat, a Bien Cultural de Interés Nacional (Catalonia's highest level of heritage protection), whose ruins stand on a hill near the hermitage of Sant Antoni, in Albinyana (Baix Penedès); it preserves remains of a wall and the base of a watchtower. The site was reconquered in 986 by Adalbert, son of Viscount Guitard, who on his death in 1010 bequeathed it to the monastery of Sant Cugat. In 1040 the abbot of the monastery ceded it to Bernat Odger de Castellet, on condition that he rebuild it and raise a stone-and-lime tower within seven years, since the first castle had fallen into ruin. A document from 1088 describes it as destroyed and depopulated for fear of the Saracens, and a bull of Pope Urban II confirmed in 1098 the castle and its church as possessions of Sant Cugat.

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