Castillo de Cardona

Today: Castillo de Cardona (Parador de Cardona), Cardona

Place: Cardona
Kind: Fort
Built: 1682 to 1812
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Open to visit

To the medieval fortress of the dukes of Cardona was added, after the Reapers' War, a ring of bastions on the project of 1682 by the engineer Ambrosio Borsano, and during the War of Independence against France (1808 to 1814) the most damaged bastions were rebuilt and the outer redoubt was completed. It held out against the troops of Felipe V until 18 September 1714. It has been a parador since 1976 and, since 2010, the first parador-museum of Catalonia.

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