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Castle of Albió

Llorac, Conca de Barberà, Tarragona

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Castle of Albió

Monument · Llorac, Conca de Barberà, Tarragona

Albió Castle stood on the highest hill of the village of Albió, at the western end of the municipality of Llorac; today only a few remains survive, since in 1602 a prioral visitation by the Hospitallers already described it as ruined, and a few decades ago even the base of a square tower disappeared when a television repeater was installed there. The first documentary record is from 1075. Between the 12th and 13th centuries it became part of the possessions that the Templar commandery of Barberà held in the Corb valley, administered from Vallfogona, until in 1250 the Templars completed their acquisition by buying the remaining share from the monastery of Vallbona de les Monges. After the Temple was dissolved in 1317, it passed to the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, which kept its lordship until the end of the old regime.

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