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 * User:Victar/Sant Genís de Monells
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 * User:Victar/Nuw Inglisch
 * Victar/Mas (cognom)

Monells
The village of Monells is divided in two by the little river Rissec, on one side the neighbourhood of the Ribera with the Gothic and Baroque style church of Sant Genís and on the other side the neighbourhood know before as the Castell (castle).

The name’s origin of this village has its first reference in 922 with the name of Mulnels, from Latin, meaning little wells, probably the ones that were placed next to the river. Its population of 250 inhabitants works in the agriculture and livestock. In recent years due to the tourism some restaurants, hotels and rural houses have appeared, apart from a new second residence urbanisation that breaks the image of the village. At the originally known as Castell neighbourhood, some remains of the defensive walls can be seen. In the square of Jaume I, there is a reproduction of the migera de Monells, this was used for the measurement of the grains during the weekly market since 1102. This concession made by the count Ramon Berenguer III would take place in this square and near streets and it was the most important on the area. It was in the 17th C. when the weekly market in La Bisbal d'Empordà replaced the importance of the Monells’ one.

The castle of Monells changed owners constantly due to its situation in the middle of a frontier line between the County of Empúries and the Bishoptry of Girona. It was a fortified village with a hospice to attend the poor and the pilgrims, founded by the widow of the count of Empúries in the 14th C.