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Castle of Corbó

Benassal, L'Alt Maestrat, Castellón

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Castle of Corbó

Monument · Benassal, L'Alt Maestrat, Castellón

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The castle of Corbó stands on a crag at about 1,060 metres of altitude, northwest of Benassal, in the Alt Maestrat. Documented since 1157, when Ramon Berenguer IV granted a founding charter to Alcañiz, it was conquered from the Muslims by Peter the Catholic in 1210, and the founding charter of 1239 left Pedro Daroca as feudal lord of the territory. Incorporated into the district of the castle of Culla, it passed in 1303 to the Order of the Temple and in 1319 to that of Montesa, which kept it garrisoned until it was depopulated in 1612. Of the rock castle, today in ruins and scattered over a wide area, a single walled enclosure survives, with two twin barbican towers and a main tower with a cistern; a local legend tells of an underground passage leading to a cave with a spring at the foot of the mountain. Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection) (RI-51-0010797).

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