Mon St Benet: A Thousand-Year Old Monastery Tour Just 40-Minutes from Barcelona
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9 Ratings
Sant Fruitos de Bages
Discover the thousand-year old Mon St Benet monastery, located just 40 minutes from Barcelona. Explore its rich history, stunning architecture, and indulge in Catalan cuisine.
Duration: 1 hour
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Mon St Benet - Món Sant Benet is a unique cultural and leisure project. This unparalleled complex boasts a mediaeval monastery just a few metres away from an innovative international culinary research centre. The complex is just outside of Barcelona, in incomparable natural surroundings.

The medieval tour in the monastery (One thousand years of sensations) is a museum production that invite you to become immersed in the life of a monastery, in which voices, everyday noises and images from the past emerge between the walls of this thousand-year-old monastery, converting this tour into a truly unique experience. A route around the principal features of the monastery site: the church, the cloister, the wine cellar and the cells in the Montserrat gallery, enabling us to see what life was really like for the monastery community. After the 75-minute guided tour (in Spanish, with English subtitles), you are free to spend the rest of your time at the complex as you wish. Visit the restaurants, explore the culinary research center, or the shop that sells typical catalan products.

What's Included
  • Audio guide included
What's Not Included
  • Transportation to/from attractions
  • Drinks
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Lunch
  • Gratuities
Additional Information

Explore a monastery that’s been standing for a millennium, conveniently located 40 minutes away from Barcelona, amidst incredible natural surroundings. Take a trip back in time as you discover Catalan history through the monastery museum. Experience the key elements of this medieval monastery, such as its church and cloister. Beyond its historical aspect, Món St Benet also hosts a culinary research centre, three dining establishments, and a quaint shop selling traditional Catalan items.

Location
Mon St Benet
Cami Sant Benet, s/n,
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Johnebcn
May 15, 2019
Medieval & Modernista visit - A disappointing experience. It's an interesting place with a fascinating history and they have a good collection of art and artefacts but the monastery has been turned into a cheesy audio visual experience. You get ushered into the rooms, then the lights go down and videos are automatically projected onto objects and walls. The footage was mainly fake antique cinema with actors. The computer animated imagery was clunky and unconvincing. Only when the high-tech presentation was finished were we permitted to move on to the next room. We were ushered through the buildings from station to station. I just wanted to leave and explore the place for myself. The guide was nice but he didn't really know that much, to be fair he had just started on the job. The experience was expensive too - over 23 euros to attend both the Medieval and Modernista tours. Terrible value for money and an experience I would neither recommend nor wish to repeat. It is a shame as I felt that they had choked the place with technology and in doing so rendered it soulless. It's a video experience housed in a medieval building. I am sure that the 10th century building would have been a much more interesting place 30 years ago than it is today.
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