Top 10 Castles around Tivissa

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From up here you have a beautiful view.

Stately mansion from the early 20th century, made up of the remains of two medieval buildings, the Escornalbou monastery, founded in 1153, and the castle, built on the remains of a Roman fortress. For six centuries this architectural complex formed the barony of Escornalbou, but after the confiscation of Mendizabal it was practically in ruins. In 1911 it was acquired by the philanthropist, diplomat and writer Eduard Toda, who restored it following very personal criteria: some structures were demolished and towers were erected in an "exotic" medieval style. Of the old monastery, only the Romanesque church remains, remains of the chapter house and the structure of the cloister, converted into a viewpoint of the Camp de Tarragona region.

the panorama is brutal

The castle of Sant Jordi d'Alfama was built in the 13th century in order to defend the area from pirate attacks. Although it was almost completely destroyed in the 17th century, it was completely restored in the 18th century and now constitutes a beautiful historical place by the sea.

There would be three constructions that would be included under the name of Sant Jordi d'Alfama Castle, the old convent-castle, the modern fort and the optical tower, as all of them were of vital importance in coastal defense. Today we know as the castle of Sant Jordi d'Alfama the one that corresponds to the fortification built between the end of the 17th century and the 18th century according to the new fortification system of the French Marquis de Vauman, who modernized the defenses of this coast, replacing the 'old convent-castle of Sant Jordi d'Alfama that the Castilian troops shot down with cannons in 1650, during the Reapers' War, to prevent the French and Catalans from fortifying there, as the place was a place of forced passage, both by land and by sea. All that remains of the old medieval fortress-convent are fragments of the lower part of the walls and traces of others that would draw a plan adapted to the terrain. According to an inventory of 1576, it was a fortified body with a square plan (20 m side), centered by a courtyard around which were distributed the dormitory, the church and other typical dependencies of a convent (chapter, refectory... .). There was still a tower or watchtower that went up another four meters, reaching almost sixteen meters. At the end of the 17th century and the beginning of the 18th, the defense of this coastal area was rebuilt following the so-called Vauman system, the military fort of Sant Jordi d'Alfama was born, which we know today as Sant Jordi Castle. Two thick parallel walls, united frontally by another in the form of a rare arch and a fourth wall where the entrance is located, protected by two advanced wall lines, delimit a polygonal central courtyard surrounded by a lattice of towers, bulwarks and revells.

The castle of Miravet is a medieval fortress located on top of a hill in the municipal term of Miravet. The castle of Miravet rises on a large rock next to the Ebro river, from where it offers a great panorama of the town, as well as the region of the Ribera de Ebro, and the river.