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Access to Montserrat’s Sanctuary
Snow chains are required to access Montserrat through roads BP-1121 from Monistrol and BP-1103 from El Bruc. If you wish to come, it is recommended to avoid using the car and take the rackrailway (Cremallera) instead.

Jaume Ribas’s painting in the Museum of Montserrat
Sala Daura in the Museum of Montserrat houses, from 22nd October until 19th March 2017, the exhibition Apse, by Jaume Ribas (Palou, Granollers, 1944), a painting for the contemplation, for the slow, deep and reflective look. “It focuses us on an unfathomable space which, at the same time, is a bare surface, a blind plane which returns our gaze and forces us to think about ourselves”, affirms the art critic Àlex Mitrani, curator of the exhibition. This exhibition is the opportunity to discover...

Cable car of Montserrat: Closed for maintenance
The cable car of Montserrat will be closed for maintenance on 31st of January.Sorry for the inconvenience.

Boys’ Choir on February 3rd-4th
Because of the Feast of the Dedication of the Basilica the Boys´Choir will sing Saturday, 3rd March, during the Mass at 11 am and the prayer Salve and Virolai at 12 o’clock.
The Choir will not be in Montserrat on Sunday 4th March.

Homage to Jassans in the Museum of Montserrat
The Museum of Montserrat opens the autumn season with a retrospective dedicated to the sculptor Josep Salvadó Jassans (Alforja, 1938 - 2006) to commemorate the tenth anniversary of his death. The exhibition, which pays homage to the person and the artist, is the fruit of the work of the historians Jorge Egea and Adrián Arnau as curators, with the support of the family Jassans, who has lent a great part of the works which are now shown. Entitled Imagined Greece, it consists of 50 works that illu...

Recovery of Antoni Gaudí’s original design for the Monumental Rosary
The First Mystery of Glory of Montserrat’s Monumental Rosary, designed at the beginning of the 20th century by Antoni Gaudí, has finally recovered its initial design after the restoration works. The promoters of this work: Montserrat’s Abbey, Diputació de Tarragona (Council of Tarragona), the Direcció General del Patrimoni Cultural (General Management of the Cultural Heritage) and Institut Català del Sòl – INCASÒL (Catalan Institute of the Land – INCASÒL).
Restoration works based on a project b...