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Montserrat
A sawtooth mountain with a Benedictine monastery and its Black Madonna, about an hour from Barcelona.
- Open
- Every day
- Price
- Free for the basilica; paid for the railways and the museum
- Time Needed
- A full day
- Address
- 08199 MontserratDirections
- Getting There
- Trains from Plaça d'Espanya to the rack railway or the cable car, about an hour and a half in all.
Why Go
The monastery clings to the mountain's jagged pinnacles, and pilgrims queue to touch the Black Madonna, Catalonia's patron saint. The abbey's boys' choir, one of the oldest in Europe, sings on most days.
Funiculars climb higher still to trails along the rock spires and wide views across Catalonia.
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