Like most everything else in Spain, the internet is very slow. It takes me a while to upload these photos.
But a this past weekend, I went to Montserrat, a Benedictine monastery in the Mountains above Barcelona (a simple one-hour train ride and a cable car). The monastery holds one of the Black Madonna's of Europe known as La Moreneta. The day I visited happened to be some sort of celebration so the plaza and church were filled with people shouting "Viva La Madre de Dios" with banners.
Here are some pictures that hardly do Montserrat justice. The views from the mountains are absolutely breathtaking.
Besos de Barcelona.
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The View from below.
Cable car to get up the mountain.
Me over 4,000 ft. up.
The very oddly shaped mountains.
View of monastery from across on a pathway.
The main plaza of the monastery.
The facade on the outside of the basilica.
Lighting a candle at the shrine of La Moreneta or "The Dark Lady"
La Moreneta
A celebration of the Virgin Mary
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