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Tossa del Mar
Earliest history has it that , in 1236, a preaching Friar (Ramon de Penyafort) arrived at Tossa de Mar and legend says that the rocks opened so that he could land on the beach.
I couldn’t find the date the castle walls and towers were begun. The fortifications were put in place as a response to raiders from North Africa. A sharp lookout was kept and signals sent out in the event of a raid …whereupon the townsfolk would gather inside the walls.. Local fisherman paid “tribute” (known as “castellatge of peix”) to the owner of the castle and thus ensured their defence.
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