Qualla: Miravet https://qualla.com/miravet en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:03 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/3/miravet-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Miravet https://qualla.com/miravet Miravet: Introduction https://qualla.com/miravet/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Makinal~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain. When the Knights Templar were destroyed, they made their last stand here. In 1307 the king of France moved to crush the order across Europe, and one by one its castles fell or surrendered. But on a limestone height above a bend in the Ebro, the Templars of Catalonia shut the gates of Miravet and refused to yield. They held out against the king of Aragon's siege for more than a year, from 1307 into December 1308—among the last Templar strongholds to fall in the Crown of Aragon. When Miravet at last surrendered, the order that had guarded this stretch of river for a century and a half was finished here.

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/3/miravet-wp/sp23-miravet-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Miravet: The Last Stronghold https://qualla.com/miravet/ Photo credit CC BY-SA 3.0. The fall of the Templars was swift and merciless. In October 1307, on a single coordinated day, King Philip IV of France had the order's members across his realm arrested, and the pressure spread through Christendom. In the Crown of Aragon, the knights did not go quietly. They ga...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/3/miravet-wp/sp23-miravet-the-last-stronghold.mp3 0:06 2 full Miravet: A Fortress-Monastery on the River https://qualla.com/miravet/ Photo credit Milartino, CC BY-SA 3.0. The castle they defended had already lived several lives. The Moors founded the stronghold, choosing a commanding height above the Ebro, and it passed to Christian hands in 1153 when Count Ramon Berenguer IV of Barcelona took it from the Almoravids—the same campaign that had late...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/3/miravet-wp/sp23-miravet-a-fortress-monastery-on-the-river.mp3 0:06 3 full Miravet: The Village That Climbs to the Castle https://qualla.com/miravet/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Makinal~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain. Below the fortress, the village of Miravet spills down toward the water in tiers of pale houses, so that from the far bank the whole settlement seems to climb from the river to the castle in a single sweep. To reach that far bank the traditional way, you take the Pas de Barca—a r...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/3/miravet-wp/sp23-miravet-the-village-that-climbs-to-the-castle.mp3 0:06 4 full Miravet: War Returns to the Ebro https://qualla.com/miravet/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Makinal~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain. Centuries after the Templars, the river made Miravet strategic once more. During the Spanish Civil War, the village lay in the path of the Battle of the Ebro, the vast 1938 struggle that raged up and down this valley. On 4 November 1938, Franco's Nationalist forces occupied Mirav...

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