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Castle of Ulldemolins

Ulldemolins, Priorat, Tarragona

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Castle of Ulldemolins

Monument · Ulldemolins, Priorat, Tarragona

Image of Ulldemolins, not of the place itself.

The castle of Ulldemolins, now vanished, stood on the site where the parish church of Sant Jaume now stands, built between 1584 and 1590. Although the fortress may already have existed before 1187 — the year in which Queen Sança granted Arnau Domènec the right to build a chapel there — the first charter of settlement of the place, then called Occulo de Molinis, was granted by King Alfonso I in 1166. In the 14th century the town passed to the county of Prades, and in the 15th it was equipped with a walled enclosure reinforced on account of the Catalan civil war (1462-1472). The castle was already practically in ruins when the new church was erected on its site; today it is recalled only by the name of a street in the village, the calle del Castillo.

Photo: Mikipons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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