Besora Castle

The castle is built above a rocky spur at an altitude of 1,092 m, and was accessible only by a path from the north, duly fortified.

[1] It is formed by three extended buildings, today converted into a rural dwelling in the local style, the masia.

The earliest historical mention of the castle is in the year 982, according to some sources or in 885;[2][3] in either case it appears already cited in 875 in the donation of the dowry of Emma, daughter of Wilfred the Hairy, count of Barcelona, as a gift when she entered the monastery in Sant Joan de les Abadesses.

At the end of the ninth century, Wilfred the Hairy established military positions in Cardona, Osona, Berguedà and in the Vall de Lord.

[5] The royalist leader Buenaventura Carbó, who later served as governor of Cuba, was forced to flee the castle and the parish.