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Barcelona for (in this case) the Montserrat Monastery

Monday 9th April 2018

Mont Juic Hill, Barcelona, as we came in

Into Barcelona as we got up. We went on a tour to Montserrat. It went through grotty industrial suburbs that seemed to go on for ever, then steeply up to the monastery, which was still in cloud when we got there but the Sun soon boiled them off. The Basque guide was quite a character, trying not to offend anyone. Apparently, some over-enthusiastic lefties at the beginning of the Civil War, trashed it & killed some monks & Franco rebuilt the damaged bit but the church had it coming, as they were instrumental in anyone remotely leftish getting shot by Franco's troops.

Coming into the monastery area

End of the Cathedral

Gateway into the Cathedral Square

In the Cathedral Square

The Cathedral

Frontage

Saints over the door

Inside the Cathedral

Bad Catholic art

Black Madonna

Out the back

You can get up by train...

...or walk up

Chapel on the wak

The church was not over done. The setting was spectacular, with granite (I think) pillars above & long-distance views. We had coffee & snacks, as the tour ran over lunch time.

Montserrat view

Sail away from Barcelona


Dinner in the Palms today after the sail away party in actual Sunshine.


Port 1 - Almeria

Port 2 - Ibiza

Port 4 - Ajaccio

Port 5 - Olbia

Port 6 - Palermo

Port 7 - Palma

Port 8 - Cadiz

Port 9 - Lisbon


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