Borrell Palace Verified listing

The Borrell Palace is a neighbourhood consisting of five old houses and a pre-Romanesque chapel dedicated to St Eulàlia. The Sant Miquel de Fluvià Monastery held possessions there since the 12th century. In the 15th and 16th centuries, the Mas del Batlle home, next to the church, was the residence of the Batlle de Sac (the person responsible for collecting feudal contributions on behalf of the Lord) in charge of the monastery’s property. The place name indicates the previous existence of an important, perhaps fortified house. Santa Eulàlia de Palau Borrell Church has a nave ending with a rectangular apse and still retains much of its original pre-Romanesque structure. The 16th-century house, Mas Briolf has Roman tiles and bipedalis bricks used as a rubble for the mortar. The 17th-century house, Mas Verdalet is possibly built on older remains; the semicircular arches on the ground floor would have belonged to the former site. To the south of the church is a medieval ice well, rebuilt in the 17th century.