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What to see and do in Rocafort de Queralt

What to see and do in Rocafort de Queralt (Conca de Barberà, Tarragona): 3 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Monuments · 1 Historical milestones

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What to see and do in Rocafort de Queralt

Rocafort de Queralt
Village
Municipality at 566 meters of altitude. The architect Cèsar Martinell built the cooperative winery of Rocafort de Queralt in 1918, with diaphragm arches, one of the first of the so-called 'wine cathedrals' that Martinell himself later spread across Catalonia.
Castle of Rocafort
Monument
A termened castle that gives its name to the municipality of Rocafort de Queralt, in the comarca of the Conca de Barberà, built in the 11th century and fully restored in 1964 with material from the abandoned settlement of Torlanda, in the municipality of Conesa. The first reliable reference to the site dates from 1076, and the first documentary mention of the castle is from 1178; in the 13th century it belonged to the Queralt family and was the centre of the Barony of Rocafort de Queralt, which passed in the 15th century to the Centelles, counts of Oliva, and in the 16th century was sold to Juan de Armengol, baron of Rocafort. The current building has two battlemented towers and a wall enclosing the whole precinct; two gates survive from the old town wall, that of Sarral or del Bonet and that of Conesa or del Groc.
Cèsar Martinell's first wine cathedral
Historical milestone
The architect Cèsar Martinell raised here in 1918 his first cooperative winery, with halls of parabolic brick arches that gave their name to the so-called cathedrals of wine. The model was afterwards repeated all over Catalonia.