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| Castell d'Eramprunyà, Gavà |
Today, The Grandma wants to visit the Castle of Eramprunyà and the Chapel of Bruguers in Gavà with the company of her great friend Jordi Santanyí, who loves History and Literature. She is studying computing in this beautiful town and she wants to know better this place and its history.
History is an amazing subject and it is very interesting to know as things as you can about a place, if you want to understand its population and its idiosyncrasy.
The Grandma has taken a lot of information that she has to write in some Write documents and classify in some Calc ones.
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The Castle of Eramprunyà is a building in Gavà (Baix Llobregat) declared a cultural site of national interest. Nearby is Sant Miquel d'Eramprunyà, a church that is part of the Inventory of the Architectural Heritage of Catalonia. They form a remarkable set of ruins on the sanctuary of Bruguers, on a mountain with cliffs and magnificent views over the Llobregat delta.
The ruins of the Eramprunyà castle are on a mountain between cliffs with magnificent views of the Llobregat delta and part of the Garraf. The complex consists of three fortified enclosures: the main one or superior located at 402 metres altitude -where there are the ruins of the gothic palace castle-, the lower located at 392 metres, where there is the hermitage of Sant Miquel d'Eramprunyà, of Romanesque style, although transformed -and the outside to 319 metres- where you can see an important part of the old wall.
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| Jordi Santanyí visits the Castle of Eramprunyà |
In the main area, surrounded by walls that had 50 cm thick in many sections made of small ashlars, it was accessed through a stone bridge -currently made by a wooden walkway. The bastion defending the portal has a thickness of 90 cm in the southernmost wall.
The Chapel of Sant Miquel d'Eramprunyà is a one-nave building. Originally it was a castral parish, and it has walls with multiple stages of construction. Three stages are distinguished. A first, pre-Romanic, from which the interior side walls remain. Another Romanesque church, from which the outer side walls remain and the start of the vault of the old apse cannon. And a third of modern, of which the frontal and posterior walls remain, and the vaulted roof, characteristic of Renaissance Gothic, of very modest creation.
Around the hermitage, you can see anthropomorphous tombs and also an inscription on the rock made by Jaume March I, Lord of Eramprunyà, in the 14th century. There is also an inscription from the 12th century, and another from the 18th century, on the subject of guard at the castle. The Romanesque temple dates back to the first half of the 12th century, although it may take advantage of an older wall.
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The castle is mentioned for the first time in the year 957, although later documents indicate that it was already in existence at Count Sunyer in Barcelona. It was the headquarters of a term (the Eramprunyà castle term) in the medieval period that managed to control the current territories of Gavà, Begues, Castelldefels, Sant Climent de Llobregat, Viladecans and a part of Sant Boi de Llobregat, Sitges and Olivella.
Constructed as part of the defensive system of the border between Al-Andalus and the Carolingian Empire and as the seat of political and economic and military control in the area between Garraf and Llobregat, it was owned by the counts of Barcelona until 1323.
In the eleventh century, as a result of the feudal revolt, the Lordship of Eramprunyà was constituted, in the hands of the family of Mir Geribert, the Sant Martí. In the thirteenth century the castle returned to the crown of Aragon.
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| The Grandma contemplates the castle |
In 1323, the castle and the jurisdiction of the place was acquired by the banker Pere Marc, from a family of knights and poets, for 120,000 sous who handed over to King Jaume II to initiate the conquest of Sardinia.
In 1469, during the War of Remences against Joan II, he suffered the first destruction, as he was bombarded by the troops of the Generalitat, which left the castle very damaged. Even so, there are different families in the possession of the castle and the barony of Eramprunyà.
At the end of the 19th century, it was acquired by another banker, Manel Girona.
In 2007, the Town Hall of Gavà acquired the whole castle and started different phases of consolidation and adaptation. These actions have been accompanied by a documentary and archeological research that has allowed to extend the knowledge that until now had on this castle.
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The church, the house of Sant Miquel d'Eramprunyà (home of Michaelis in Erapruniano) is cited in the testament of Galí de Santmartí, vicar in Eramprunyà, which was dictated in 977 and sworn by its executors the 981.
In 1074 the church is named as a parish. In the 12th century (1129, 1141), there are several leftovers for the work of Sant Miquel d'Eramprunyà. In the 14th century, he no longer had a cemetery. The parish was moved to Sant Pere de Gavà.
Bruguers' Mare de Déu or Bruguers Hermitage is an originally Romanesque building from the 13th century in the village of Bruguers, halfway between the towns of Begues and Gavà (Baix Llobregat) included in the Inventory of the Architectural Heritage of Catalonia.
One-story building, semicircular apse decorated with two lasenes and a cornice supported by permods. It has four side chapels, choir, canon vault and trone. There is also a triumphal arch.
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| Ermita de Bruguers, Gavà |
The centre was extended to the west during the first decade of the 16th century, when the gospel heart of the oval vault, a semicircular apse with corbels and window, a gothic-Renaissance portal and a truncated trunked bell tower were added.
The main façade, on the west, is almost square. Horizontality is broken by a steeple bell. The lintel of the access door is decorated with the shields of the March family. On the lintel there is a semicircular arch. The buttresses that incorporate the chapels are interesting, in a solution of the Catalan Gothic. The exterior of the apse is delicately decorated with Lombard strips. Despite the modifications, the hermitage has a basically Romanesque typology.
The Mare de Déu de Bruguers is a gothic image from the end of the 14th century. There is a copy in the chapel because the original one is preserved in the rectory.
Some sources indicate that the chapel was founded in the thirteenth century by Ferrer de Santmartí, Lord of Eramprunyà (1208-1226/47), with the invocation of Santa Magdalena del Sitjar, in the place that then had that name.
In 1500 the works of reconstruction of the old chapel of the Sitjar were contracted, which was already being named Bruguers (Brugueris, a name that comes from all the bushes).
In 1504, the vicar general of the diocese authorized Francesc Jeroni Marc, Lord of Eramprunyà, to transfer the invocation of the Virgin of Bruguers to the chapel of Sitjar from the primitive Bruguers chapel (Bruguers Vell, mentioned for the first time in 1321 and located in the Ventosa near the castle of Eramprunyà).
Finally, in 1509 the image was transferred. In 1540, the Lady of Eramprunyà, Elisabet Marc and Palou, built the hermits' house.
It is currently part of the properties of the parish of Sant Pere de Gavà. The chapel, which was partially destroyed during the 1936 revolution, presents the appearance of the restoration made in 1960.
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