Castle of Tosa de Mar

The Castle of Tosa de Mar is a castle located in the Spanish town of Tosa de Mar (Gerona). In 1931 it was declared a National Artistic Historical Monument. It is located in the Vila Vella of the municipality being the only example of fortified medieval population that still exists on the Catalan coast.

the Cape of Tosa, is the Vila Vella, protected by an enclosure encircled in the most vulnerable sectors that overlook the bay and the coast. The Vila Vella, with irregular and narrow streets to save the unevenness of the hill, extends inside a walled enclosure that has a perimeter of about 300 m. Of this enclosure, at the moment a wall canvas with seven round towers is conserved, of which three they are differentiated by the greater height and by the finishing with corseres, formed by stepped corbels that maintain small arcs of round point.

These towers had to have three floors with stone vault roofs, and the access to its interior was through a door from the ronda way. The other four towers with a smaller diameter and height are interspersed in the curtain of the wall.

The houses that we find between the narrow streets are of the XV and XVI centuries, with buildings that present certain Gothic elements, like for example the Palace of the Mayor, current Municipal Museum.