Walking & Hiking At Montserrat (8 must-do routes for all levels)

Panoramic views of Montserrat and beyond

Montserrat is a multi-peaked mountain thirty kilometres inland from Barcelona. The mountain is famous for its 13th Century Monastery, which was built to house a statue of the Virgin Mary, discovered in a cave more than a thousand years ago. Although the monastery is impressive, the main reason for visiting Montserrat is to experience the…

Walking the Camino de Santiago from Barcelona to Montserrat (A pilgrim’s guide)

Camino signs in Barcelona

The Camino de Santiago is the world’s best-known Christian pilgrimage trail and hundreds of thousands of people set out to walk it every year. The history of the Camino de Santiago can be traced back to the Middle Ages, and although nowadays, most pilgrims only walk the 100-kilometre section from Sarria to Santiago de Compostela,…

From Barcelona to the Santa Maria de Montserrat Monastery by Train and On Foot (A Hiker’s Guide)

Cami de les Aigües, walking to Montserrat fon Monistrol de Montserrat

The Monastery of Santa Maria de Montserrat is an eleventh-century Benedictine monastery set in an idyllic mountaintop location approximately thirty-five kilometres from Barcelona. If you’ve already read my Ultimate Guide to Visiting Montserrat from Barcelona, you’ll know that the most convenient way to reach the monastery is by taking the R5 train from Barcelona, followed…