. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. old feudal castles crowning somemountain summit or somelonely hill, speaking eloquentlyof the bygone days when knightsand cavaliers rode across theluxuriant plain and led their re-tainers to battle; yet in theirvery desolation now, ruined,ownerless, and forlorn, testify-ing to the great changes thathave come over the land. Themost notable of all these in itsday was the strong chateau ofCasteir Nou, and during themany years of its existence as a place of arms its historywas entwined with that of the Catal
. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. old feudal castles crowning somemountain summit or somelonely hill, speaking eloquentlyof the bygone days when knightsand cavaliers rode across theluxuriant plain and led their re-tainers to battle; yet in theirvery desolation now, ruined,ownerless, and forlorn, testify-ing to the great changes thathave come over the land. Themost notable of all these in itsday was the strong chateau ofCasteir Nou, and during themany years of its existence as a place of arms its historywas entwined with that of the Catalan people. It was builttowards the close of the tenth century, when the Count Olibaof the Cerdagne, whose name you will still find upon oldparchment deeds at Puigcerda and Ripoll, left half histerritory to his younger son, Bernard, Count of Besalu, whosesurname of Taillefer is associated with many a gallant andnoble action. The Count Bernard found his lands and hiscastles spread far and wide upon both flanks of the Pyrenees,and along the twin valleys of the Tech and Tet. He looked, 146. CASTELL NOU 3> J 5 » > \ > 5 » l3 J
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