Montserrat Monastery is a Benedictine monastery, a spiritual symbol and religious center of Catalonia and a center of pilgrimage for Catholics from all over the world.
The monastery, located at an altitude of 721 m above sea level, got its name from the mountainous area of ​​Montserrat (“Cut Mountains”), 50 km northwest of Barcelona, ​​where thousands of bizarre limestone rocks rise in a small space of 10 x 5 km. Human fantasy has given individual rocks equally entertaining names: Mummy, Bishop's Belly, Elephant's Trunk, Bernard's Horse. In 1987, the natural complex adjacent to the monastery was declared a national park of Catalonia. The rich flora of this corner of nature covers more than one and a half thousand species. Decorated with sculptural works and majolica, the well-groomed mountain paths of this open-air museum, entangling the surroundings of the monastery, are equipped with indicators for the duration and level of difficulty of the route and are popular with both tourists and local residents. The monastery has a developed tourist infrastructure. There is a cable car to the Montserrat monastery. Since 2003, the rack railway "Cremallera de Montserrat" has been operating.