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Mas de la Muga

Bellvei, Baix Penedès, Tarragona

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Mas de la Muga

Monument · Bellvei, Baix Penedès, Tarragona

The Mas de la Muga is an old farmhouse converted into a historicist-style castle, in the district of Bellvei, in the Baix Penedès. It stands on a hill 154 metres high and is documented as a fortified manor since the 11th century, although its present appearance comes from a renovation that rebuilt the complex using the medieval materials of the old manor; according to tradition, it was commissioned by a wealthy woman from Bellvei who wanted to live comfortably outside the village without giving up seeing it every morning. Declared a bien cultural de interés nacional (Catalonia's highest level of heritage protection), it still preserves three towers, two cylindrical and crenellated with machicolations on one side and a square crenellated one on the other, along with rectangular windows visible despite the poor condition of the building, built of brick and iron and now abandoned.

Photo: Angela LLop (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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