Municipality Miravet

Miravet is a beautiful medieval town, located in Comarca de la Ribera d`Ebre (Tarragona, Catalonina). It is situated on a steep rock, along the Ebro River and is crowned by a robust Templar castle. 

The town 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. 

The castle  has been declared a monument of national interest. 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.