Day 2
Barcelona
Montserrat Monastary Basilicia & La Ramblas
Still, the sight and sounds in Barcelona really took my breath away.
Naturally pretty yet amazing!
We took a coach from our hotel to Montserrat for half an hour. Then, we decided not wasting time and took a cablecar to reached the Montserrat. It was much faster that getting on a coach!
The nice street from inside of the coach.
This view was taken from the Cablecar station. Belive it or not all the rocks was naturally arranged by themselves. The rocks looked clean and huge from the bottom.
It's me with the view from the Cablecar station before headed up to the monastary. It took me around 15 minutes by Cablecar to reached the hill and another 15 minutes walked to reached the monastary.
Again, it was HOT!
Me & my brother's took a picture after we reached the other Cablecar station! You can spot the huge rocks at the back! The rocks each's shape was different.
And finally after 15 minutes walked, we reached the Montserrat Monastary Basilicia. It was pretty tiring as we need to hiked up to reached the monastary. But that was okay!
And finally we reached the monastary YAY! So, me and my mom immediately took a photo from the outside of the monastary with those rocks view as well! From the outside area, the monastary wasn't crowded as compared to the inside of the monastary.
If you guyd wondering what's Montserrat Monastary Basilicia?
Montserrat - serrated mountain that plays a vital role in the cultural and spiritual life of Catalonia. As it's Catalonia most important religious retreat and group of young people from Barcelona makes a hight at least once in their life to watch sunrise from the top
Basilicia - the name of the church at Montserrat. Most people visit Montserrat its because the gotchic building of architechture significance. Also, it houses what is arguably Montserrat's most important feature - the statue of the Black Madona
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Me & my family was standing at the front of the monastary's door. Really like their wall! Looks very majestic LOL! All of their floor was made up from a marble.
How beatiful it is! The had a church service - silent mode that time so, I wasn't able to snap lots of picture.
That's some of the pictures that I managed to snapped from the right area of the church. Evnthough it's not much, I hope those pictures inspires you to visit this church :)
Finally, I had to lined up from the outside to get to see the Black Madona Statue. It took me around 30 minutes wait outside to see the statute. They will just open their door once their church service is done so it will not get disturbed.
And, I had to queued for another 15 minutes inside to get to see the statute. Because the corridor was small, so people must walked closely and in a silent manner.
Oh btw, the photos that I snapped previously was taken along the corridor before I got the chance to see the Black Madona statue.
And finally, here we go. Black Madona Statue
What do you think about this statue? Each person must see it individually because the space was too small. We could pray and touch the statue for couple of minutes too.
That's was our visit to the monastary and we was waiting outside for the other group member.
We had our lunch nearby the monastery, then we headed back to the city to have a walked at
La Ramblas!
La Ramblas is the centre street in Barcelona that's popular with tourists and locals too. Its popularity with tourist has affected the character of the street, with a move to pavement cafes and souvenir kiosks. Branded boutiques such as LV and others as well as normal boutiques such as H&M, Zara, Stardivarius and others could be found along the street.
This street has also suffered from the attention of pickpockets
I ended my night by watching the Flamenco Show and also had dinner at the same time. It a traditional show. But, I didn't really like it and it was wasting time LOL.
Thank you Barcelona, I am beginning to fall in love with you.
See you on the next blog & thanks for reading!
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