Cabassers castle originates in a grant of 1149, when Count-King Ramon Berenguer IV ceded the site to Abbot Esteve de Flabemont, of the Premonstratensian order, to found a monastery and oratory there. The community was abandoned around 1158-1159 and passed to the see of Tortosa and Bishop Gaufred; in 1266 the prior and chapter formally received it from the bishop through an agreement. Its revenues helped fund Tortosa cathedral, and the complex became the seat of the episcopal Barony of Cabassers until well into the 19th century.
Of the original castle, square in plan and roughly 22.70 by 23 metres, only a stretch of the west wall survives, Romanesque in style, with two rows of loopholes, three small openings above them, and eight corbels; the roughly hewn stones are laid in courses bonded with lime mortar. The chapel that had served as the parish church was demolished around 1870; in 1887 the Spanish state sold the castle to Tomàs Amorós Miró, and in 1933 the public school was built there, which today incorporates the remains in its courtyard, next to Carrer Major. It is protected as a National Cultural Interest asset (code BCIN 798-MH / BIC RI-51-0006599, IPAC 891).
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- OpeningNomés se'n conserva un fragment de mur, integrat a l'escola del poble.
- AddressNucli de Cabassers, 43775
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Last updated: August 2026