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Rehabilitation works of the New Castle of Torredembarra

Date
1994 - 2000
Archive
Municipal Archive of Torredembarra
Document type
Imatge fixa
Reference code
CAt-AMTo-01-G717
Link to the online document
Description

Photographs of the initial state and of the rehabilitation works of the New Castle of Torredembarra, to adapt it into the seat of the Torredembarra Town Council. This castle was built from 1565 by the will of Lluís Icart Agustí. Great example of Renaissance civil architecture in Catalonia. Influenced by his stay at the Castelnuevo in Naples as well as by the humanist Antoni Agustí (his uncle), he built a new castle that could be a witness to a conscious process of creating a Tarragona architectural lexicon, where Renaissance forms evoke those of Tarraco, and not just imitate foreign models.