A Visit to Monserrat

Today we visited Monserrat which has a church , an abbey that contains monks, and an art museum. It took about an hour to drive their from Barcelona. Once there some of us visited the church where there is a statue of a black madonna  which people were lining up to touch.

 

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The art museum contained a very good collection of paintings. 

A watercolor painted by John Singer Sargeant

A watercolor painted by John Singer Sargeant