The Monastery of Poblet and the town Montblanc – Full day tour

• Duration : 9 hours
• Meeting point : to be arranged
• Entrance tickets planned : Poblet Monastery
• Accessibility: Semiaccessible tour

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Visit to the Monastery of Poblet and the town of Montblanc, the jewels in the crown

• A Full Day excursion for knowing the shire ofConca de Barberà.
• We are visiting the Monastery of Poblet, one of the most important cistercian monasteries of Spain, declared Human Site by UNESCO.
• We’ll stroll by the duchy village of Montblanc, where took place the battle of saint George against the dragon.

Other details of this excursion to Poblet Monastery and the town of Montblanc.

• Customizable itinerary at your leisure. Tell us about your needs to design a tailor-made tour for you.
• The tickets to the Royal Monastery of Poblet aren’t included in he price. We’ll manage the reservation and we’ll add the cost at the final invoice of our service. The price of the tickets depends on the age of the guests.
• Accessibility. This tour is accessible to people with functional diversity in most of its places. However, some places of the monasterry are located at the first floor aren’t accessible for wheelchair.

During the 12th Century, Borderline of Chistians and Muslims of Al Andalus was move hundreds of kilometers to the South.

This movement forced the necessity to repopulate these lands with Christians. That’s the importance of Cistercian monks.

In this shire of Conca de Barberà there’s one of the best preserved monasteries of Europe, the Reial Monastir de Santa Maria de Poblet, declared Human Site by UNESCO.

Along the Middle Ages decame one of the most powerful points of the shire. In the 14th Century, it was said that the Abbot of Poblet could move all around Catalonia without leaving the lans under his control, evidence of how religios and earthly power mix easily in those times. In addition,for centuries was the Royal Pantheon of the Aragon Crown.

Until 1835 it was inhabited and after few years of abandonment, a community of monks settled in the 1940’s.

During this tour we’ll talk about the monastery and the daily life of the monks. We are going to see the kitchen, the refectory, the cloister, the church and the restaured graves of the Aragon Crown Monarchs. We are going to visit the main bedroom of the monks and other rooms that will help you to imagine the hard life in a monasterry of the Middle Ages.

And we are going to stroll around Montblanc, the town where saint George kill the dragon.

Once we end the tour of Poblet monastery, we can move to Montblanc, a little walled town, transformed into a duchal city in the 14th Century that got an important rol in the route that joint the cities of Tarragona and Lleida. Strolling around its streets we are going to find imposing walls, numerous churches and thePlaza Mayor. And, opf course, we are going to talk about the most famous legend of Montblanc, the fighting of saint George against the dragon.

After lunch in a typical restaurant, in order to know the local gastronomy, we’ll come back.

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