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Castle of Torredembarra

Torredembarra, Tarragonès, Tarragona

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Castle of Torredembarra

Monument · Torredembarra, Tarragonès, Tarragona

The castle-palace of Torredembarra, regarded as one of Catalonia's most notable Renaissance buildings, replaces an earlier one documented in 1057. The present building, designed as a fortified residence that would dominate the town from its highest point, began to be built from 1565 on the initiative of Lluís d'Icart, lord of the place. It has a square plan with four corner towers and a central porticoed courtyard, and its portal displays two pairs of Tuscan columns beneath a semicircular pediment. It gradually lost importance from the 18th century onward and reached the 20th century badly deteriorated, until it was restored in 1998 to become the seat of the Town Council.

Photo: Enric (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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