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Basilica de Montserrat Populares

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the sanctuary of the María virgin always is a motive of called for the pilgrims ". Some two millions 200 thousand peoples visited Montserrat in 2005, indicated the responsible thing

View from the high thing of Montserrat, your natural environment Populares

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The natural unique environment in which is located the sanctuary of Montserrat, in an esplanade of the mountain with that name, on the brink of a precipice on the Llobregat river, also

Sanctuary of Montserrat, dresses partial Populares

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The mountain of Montserrat, put to the right of the Llobregat river, it are one of the more high and abrupt wholes of the Prelitoral Catalana saw. The monastery is put to 725 m of height on the sea level, and saint Hieronymite, to 1.236 m, it is the more high top.

Montserrat, thousand years of history Populares

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In the XI century the Oliba abad founded a small monastery at the side of the hermitage of Santa María, that slowly went consolidating to him and it is converted in abbey at the beginning of the XV. centuryBetween the years 1493 and 1835, time of go deep into reforms, of growth and splendor, Montserrat was part of the Valladolid congregation. The Napoleonic war () and the disentailment of 1835 brought the destruction and the abandon, but soon (1844) started the restoration, only paralyzed for the civil war hispanizes (), that converted Montserrat in the monastery-sanctuary that it is today.

Montserrat, half-close of the sanctuary Populares

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The geologic origin of this mass is sedimentary. The rocks of Montserrat are very hard and very resistant to the erosion, are formed for a conglomerate on edge united vehicles for a calcareous cement.