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Once the church was restored, the place was converted into a meeting space for the defense of ecological values from a
Christian perspective. In the perimeter of the ancient castle there is a park with several icons to the value of ecology, climbing, and mountaineering. In 1986 it received a
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and was controlled by the
Gallifa family, a name they adopted from the castle. They are documented from 1060 with Ramon, son of Adaltrudis, married to Rodlendis. He was followed by his son, Bernat Ramon de Gallifa, who was also a Castilian of the castle of ClarĂ , in
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In 1985, the priest of
Gallifa, Josep Dalmau, started the reconstruction of the Romanesque hermitage. As the hermitage had no image, the collector JesĂşs PrujĂ offered an image of a Virgin from the 11th century, which he had found in the loft of a farmhouse near
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built by the 14th century as a last resort for the inhabitants of the castle. Until 1860 it was parish seat of part of the area, sharing this function with the church of
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The castle is on a 600-metre (2,000 ft) high hill and comprises defensive walls around a plateau with portals on the west and east side, both of them with look-out towers.
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walls were found from the 8th century BC that indicate a stable settlement in the territory. The first documentation of the castle is from 999 CE.
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