Santa Maria de Montserrat

by Mary Machare

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Santa Maria de Montserrat

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Mary Machare

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Photograph - Photography And Digital Art

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The mountain Montserrat with the Benedictine monastery of Santa Maria de Montserrat lies about 45 km northwest of Barcelona. One can travel up the steep mountainside by either the Cable car or Cremallera Funicular.

The mountain Montserrat has been of religious significance since pre-Christian time. Before Christ a temple to worship Venus was built by the Romans. In the first written mention of 888 the adoption of the construction by the first monastery of 880 AD was reported. They were hermit monks, who built various hermitages on the Montserrat. The monastery was founded by expanding the hermitage of Santa Maria 1025.

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October 2nd, 2016

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