Another day trip: Montserrat. Montserrat is a huge chain of mountains about an hour train ride away from Barcelona. It is actually a pretty cool place as you need to take RailRack trains and cable cars to access the Sanctuary. When you get in the mountain, there is a small village with a basilica, stores, restaurants, and hotels, but it is pretty small... similar to a small resort. What is so amazing about Montserrat is that it is a gigantic mountain with trails all over it leading to a bunch of different lookouts, chapels, hermitage sites,... The trails are located over 4,000 feet in the air. It is crazy high, and you can overlook other mountains and villages at the foot of the mountain. From the sanctuary, you can go up or down to reach the trails... you can either walk it or take funiculars to get to the top and then take the trails to hike. It is a heck of a hike, you better bring your hiking shoes, they will be needed!! Most trails take an hour to three to walk there and back.
We spent the whole day going from one trail to the other - Mom and matante Jeanne definitely didn't follow the whole time! Some of the trails are very steep, rocky, narrow - you have to be super careful, some of them don't have too much protection so you don't fall. Great day in the outdoors, but definitely exhausting!!Definitely one of the best spots we visited during the trip! It was just really cool and different!
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