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In 1166 King Alfonso I of Aragon granted Pere de Berga the "Força o casa fuerte" that he had built in Blancafort, in the current municipality of Cercs, in Berguedà, in exchange for an oath of fidelity, in his name and its successors.
From what can be read in a document preserved in the Liber feudorum maior, this fortification had recently been finished or was in the process of construction. In 1174, another document already mentions the Castrum de Blancafort, which has survived to this day in ruins.
Declared a Cultural Asset of National Interest, it is nevertheless still a fantastic fortification, as seen in this report in La Vanguardia's Readers' Photos.
The castle is located on a rocky point in the Sierra de Blancafort (1176 meters of altitude), between Cerro de la Guardia and Loma de la Figuerassa. Due to its strategic location, it facilitated communication between the different castles owned by Pere de Berga, spread over the area he dominated.
Very close to the castle building is the church of Sant Miquel, composed of a single nave and a semicircular apse and which was also built in the 12th century.
