Montserrat
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| We will be going waaaay up there, by cable car |
It is one of those impossible locations that make you wonder how it even came to be. Who decided this was a great place, and then how in the world did they get up there? The first monastery was possibly built here in 880, and became famed for its "Black Madonna" icon in the 12th century. Little of the original monastery remains, although there are still remnants of the hermitage caves above the basilica.
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| View down the cable car line |
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| View up the funicular to Sant Jeroni |
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| Nice view from not-even-the-top-yet |
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| Mountain goat children |
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| Pathway along the hernitage caves |
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| Inside the basilica |
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| The Black Madonna - so named because the wood and varnish of he skin have darkened over time |