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Calatayud and Montserrat
This is a top pick! ... . Later that day she changed her mind and allowed the signora to cut her hair in the style of the Ronnettes. We were due to leave Montserrat and Spain the next day and, for the first time since we left our gite in the Dordogne, I was sorry to be moving ...
A walk in the clouds @ Montserrat
... and are visited by thousands of tourists and pilgrims who besides entering the basilica, visit also the Montserrat Museum (with Picasso, Caravaggio, Monet and Degga paintings), listen the harmonic children’s choir concerts (escolanía), and go up to ...
Montserrat, Spain
... the most popular day trip from Barcelona and it was easy to see why. The spectacular scenery makes Montserrat one of the most amazing sights in Spain (and most anywhere). The mountains rise to 1236 meters but seem so much higher because of the sheer, ...
Pilgrimage to Montserrat
... in mind for the next boarding) We had an hour ride up to the station for the Rack Railway to Montserrat. The timing for that worked out well and we again scored four seats together for the 20 or 30 minute ride up the Rack Railway to the base ...
10 Day Ignatian Pilgrimage through Spain & France
... Jesus, to put on the armor of Christ. After this, he walked to Manresa, a town about 23 km from Montserrat. Here, here prayed in a cave and wrote the Spiritual Excercises, which would change the world forever. So four of my buddies and I set out ...
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At the base of a mountain
... in olive oil and local herbs. The day ended with a picturesque train ride through and down the mountain and ending at the outskirts of our town. Montserrat is definitely one of the most unique places in the world. A natural wonder that we will ...
Montserrat mystique
... decided that we'd better try exploring other landscapes as well. On July 12 we decided to take the train to Montserrat, where mountain and monastery meet. Part of the fun of the excursion is the transportation. The train journey on FGC was ...
Another hilltop monastery
... too) so I was interested to compare the two. At the main train station there is a specific train you catch straight to Montserrat and a combined ticket you can buy for E18. This ticket includes return train fare to Montserrat, unlimited use of the ...
Montserrat
... was big and modern, the bathroom was nice and very efficient (surprisingly, it is hard to find a hotel with efficient bathroom in Spain), and score! We had a king size bed which is also hard to find in Spain. And after that loooong train ride from ...
Intangible
... that my plan has been to simply be happy. In recent years, this has been about lots of traveling (mostly to Spain), and writing my stupid little blogs because honestly, whether anybody else cares about them or not, writing about my travel ...
The Serrated Mountain
... to legend an image of the Black Madonna was found at 'Santa Cova' cave, so now it is the home of Our Lady of Montserrat and a Benedictine monastery with almost a thousand years of history. After arriving at the station we took a cable car ride up to the ...
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Montserrat and Interior of Camper
We had read about the famous monastery at Montserrat, perched high on a mountainside around 50 km out of Barcelona, so we decided to head that way on our way north towards France. We drove away from Sitges and towards the interior of Spain. ...
On Higher Ground
... some time and to visit his museum, but the tour was unavailable for today. So we decided to reach 'Higher Ground' and to visit the monastery at Montserrat. We set off from the Hard Rock Cafe in the centre of Barcelona, and we would be making a stop ...
Recap: Monserrat
... to get away from the city life for a short while. This Benedictine monastery sits among the Montserrat range (serrated mountains), nestled within a cave like dwelling and serves as a remote sanctuary for the resident monks, priests and nuns who reside ...
The Pilgrimage
... school kids. (Sorry no one from Hong Kong bothered to come up.. I only saw some Japanese girls) Ignoring the disappointments, Montserrat and the monastery still gave me a sense of sacredness and tranquility. At least the air was a lot cooler on ...
Montserrat
Visited Montserrat today, a nice and peaceful monastery on top of a rock. It was a great break from the crowds of Barcelona, so we took it slowly and relaxed a bit. There's a famous statue of Black Madonna in the monastery, which they supposedly couldn't ...
"First Trek in Europe"
Living in Barcelona for almost 9 months, my first rendezvous with trekking in this soil happened today, when we did "St. Jeroni" the summit of the famous mountain "Montserrat" in Cataluña, Spain. Blog incomplete.... Will complete sooner.... :) ...
Pilgramage to Montserrat
... license plate given only to leased cars with foreign suckers driving them. We decided to go straight to our next destination, Montserrat Monestery. You can see the mountain that the Monestery perches on for at least 15 miles away. Once ...
Breathtaking Catalunya
... in Barcelona and the surrounding area, it was this... Although I woke up later than I would have liked, I still went up to Montserrat today and hiked on one of the trails that I missed during March of last year. At the top of Sant Jeroni peak, 1236 ...
Beautiful Montserrat
... around some more near the buildings and were surprised to find out that some were actually hotels. There is a lot to do here at Montserrat and we did not plan our time well. There are two funiculars, one that goes down to Santa Cova and the other up to ...
hiking Montserrat with the black lung
Montserrat was incredibly beautiful. I just got over being sick so I was really attractively hacking up a lung when we went up steep inclines but nobody got annoyed enough to throw me off a cliff, which would have been a loooonnng cable car ride, a ...
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