Montserrat is a mountain about 1 hour north west of Barcelona that you can get to by train. The train drops you off at the bottom of the mountain, and from there, you get onto the cable car above. It climbs 1350 metres within 5 minutes, and they can fit 35 people at a time in the car. When we arrived the bottom of the mountain was covered in cloud, but as the cable car headed up, the cable car came out of the clouds and you got an amazing view over the valley.
At the top of the mountain is the Montserrat Benedictine Monastery , which was founded in1025 after a statue of the Virgin Mary was found here. Inside the Basilica is a 12th century black statue of the Virgin Mary. The Basilica itself is one of the most ornate and beautiful that we've seen. 
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