Miravet

Miravet
Municipality

Inner courtyard at Miravet castle

Coat of arms
Miravet

Location in Catalonia

Coordinates: ES 41°2′N 0°36′E / 41.033°N 0.600°E / 41.033; 0.600Coordinates: ES 41°2′N 0°36′E / 41.033°N 0.600°E / 41.033; 0.600
Country  Spain
Community  Catalonia
Province  Tarragona
Comarca Ribera d'Ebre
Government
  Mayor Antoni Borrell Vives (2015)[1]
Area[2]
  Total 32.3 km2 (12.5 sq mi)
Population (2014)[1]
  Total 774
  Density 24/km2 (62/sq mi)
Website www.miravet.cat

Miravet is a municipality in the comarca of Ribera d'Ebre in the Province of Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.

The village and the castle was founded by the Moors and rebuilt by the Knights Templar and transformed into a fortress-monastery, after the conquest of 1153. It is considered to be the largest fortified complex in Catalonia, and one of the best examples of Romanesque, religious and military, architecture of the Templar order in the whole Western world.

Ebre in Miravet

References

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