Port de la Selva is a municipality in the Alt Empordà region, belonging to the province of Gerona.
It is located on the north coast of the Cabo de Creus.
has a population of around 900 inhabitants.
History:
Castle San Salvador is as old as the monastery of San Pedro de Roda. One is on Mount Verdera and early documents refer to "castrum Verdaria dicunt quo" in 904.
Gausfred In 974 the Count of Roussillon gives Verdera Castle to the nearby monastery of San Pedro de Rodas. Of course we are referring to an area administratively linked to the county of Peralada, as in 977
seems "Castries Vverdaria in Montem qui .... dicitura Rhodes, seu in comitatu Petralatense, in suburban Castro Tholon.
The possession of the castle brought in check to the papacy and the Earl of Ampurias.
In 1238 the Count Ponç Ampurias Hug IV orders the creation of a fortress of the old castle Verdera.
Verdaria Castle appears as a holding lock on the monastery, about the century XIII.
Description:
The castle has retained its ruins and perimeter walls manage to keep half the distance as they were.
The dependence sinternas have collapsed and it is very difficult to distribution structures.
There are few rooms with a barrel vault anyway confirming the date of its completion, the thirteenth century. Remains of a chapel roámica of XI century. double-glazed windows. The building itself has an irregular rectangle plant, elongated and adpater to the line of the mountains.
only had a room. was topped with square battlements.
The irregular stone walls are quite rough.
Along the wall is square and semicircular towers include alternate, very robust.
At the western end, the wall as a starter at right angles and one side shows a double arched portal with segments of 1 / 2 point.
rocks higher in the door stands a tower cilíbndrica, and near, but outside the enclosure and isolated, stands a tall square tower of strength and advanced.
There is also a large tank.
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