Castell de Gardeny

The Castle of Gardeny is a enormous complex on the hill of Gardeny, one of the two hills of the city of Lleida. It was the headquarters of one of the main Catalan orders of the Order of the Temple. The castle, in truth, includes two structures of the Templar length and a walled enclosure of bastions of the 17th-18th centuries, which encloses everything. The hill of Gardeny, way to its height above the relaxation of the territory, facilitated army operations and has traditionally turn out to be a very vital strategic point. In Roman instances, it turned into already used by Julius Caesar in 49 BC, at some point of the Civil War between Julius Caesar and Gneu Pompeu Magne.

During the battle, the Roman province Citerior handed to Pompey. And Juli Cesar took gain of this strategic factor to confront the Pompeians Lluci Afrani and Petreu, who settled in Ilerda until they capitulated in August forty nine BC, and Juli Cèsar recovered the kingdom of Hispania Citerior. In March 1123 they built the castle of Gardeny in opposition to Larida in the camp occupied with the aid of Alfons of their siege of the city, and wherein faced Ramon Berenguer III and William IX of Poitiers against Alfonso Bataller not able to increase the siege, that the Bataller raised in June of 1123 .