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El Turó de Montgròs
El Brull, Osona
The Iberian fortification is located in the Montseny Nature Reserve. This important fortification has antecedents dating back to the Bronze Age and controlled the Formic Pass, one of the routes that connected the coast to the plain. Around 300 BC, its inhabitants constructed a large double-parament wall and moat, effectively sealing off the isthmus to the Montgròs Peninsula. The wall is an impressive barrier 145 metres long and 5 metres thick. Midway through the 3rd century BC, the fortification was reinforced with a central tower and other peripheral defence elements.
Nowadays it is thought that it must have housed a permanent military garrison where, in times of danger, people from the surronding area could take refuge with their livestock. The fortification was burned down and destroyed in the hardest moment of the second Punic War, about 205 BC. Activity in the fortification resumed, most likely, between the 10th and 14th centuries.
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More villages:
- El Casol de Puigcastellet (Folgueroles, Osona)
- L'Esquerda (Roda de Ter, Osona)
