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Castle of Pontils

Pontils, Conca de Barberà, Tarragona

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Castle of Pontils

Monument · Pontils, Conca de Barberà, Tarragona

Pontils Castle, of which only remains survive today, originally had a rectangular plan of about 32 by 35 metres bounded by a wall, with a circular tower at the centre; at its southern end the remains of an old church survive, next to a necropolis. Already documented in 976 as a boundary marker of Queralt Castle, in the mid-11th century it belonged to the counts of Barcelona, who sold it in 1057 to Ramon Berenguer I; the Castelló family held it in fief from 1062. In 1344 Peter the Ceremonious demanded homage from its castellans, and in the early modern period it passed to the counts of Savallà and later to the marquises of Aitona, until the Mendizábal disentailment; in 1648, during the Reapers' War, Castilian troops damaged it.

Photo: Netol (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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