Post on 05-Apr-2018
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What is Montserrat? It is the most important mountain in Catalonia.
Its name means sawn mountain.
It is a natural park under protection since 1987.
Where is it? It is situated in 50 km at the north-west of Barcelona,
between Anoia, Baix Llobregat and Bages.
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Plant life:
There are 1250 kinds of plants
in Montserrat.
The dominant vegetations is
the holm oak forests with
laurustinus, very typical in theMediterranean
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Wild life:
Theres a great variety of animals.
The most visible ones are the wood pigeon, the thrush,hawks, squirrels, wild goat, wild boar and thesalamander, among others.
thrush hawks Wild boars
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Santa Maria de Montserrat is a Benedictine abbey located on
the mountain of Montserrat, in Monistrol de Montserrat,
in Catalonia, Spain.
It hosts the Virgin of Montserrat, and the Publicacions de
l'Abadia de Montserrat, a publishing house, one of the oldest
presses in the world still running, with its first book published
in 1499.
The monastery is Catalonia's most important religious
retreat and groups of young people from Barcelona. Virgin
of Montserrat (the black virgin), is Catalonia's favourite
saint, and is located in the sanctuary of the Mare de Deu de
Montserrat. The Escolania, MontserratsBoys Choir is one
of the oldest in Europe, and performs during religious
ceremonies and communal prayers in the basilica.
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Montserrat, whose name means serrated mountain, is 48
kilometres (approx 30 miles) west of Barcelona, and can be
reached by road, train or cable car.
At 1236 metres (4055 ft) above the valley floor, Montserrat is
the highest point of the Catalan lowlands, and stands central to
the most populated part of Catalonia. The stone monolith is
ideally located to play spiritual life of Catalonia.
The Basilica houses a museum with
works of art by many prominent
painters and sculptors including
works by El Greco, Dal, Picasso and
more. Montserrat's highest
point, Sant Jeroni, can be rean
important role in the cultural and
ached by a footpath from the top
station of the funicular Sant Jeroni.
From Sant Joan, almost all of
Catalonia can be seen, and on a
clear day the island of Majorca is
visible.
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The Spanish Civil War saw the violent suppression of the Abbey of
Montserrat. Of the 278 priests and 583 religious men and women
killed in Catalonia by Republican forces, 22 were monks of the
Abbey of Montserrat.
During Franco's rule Santa Maria de Montserrat was seen as a
place of refuge for scholars, artists, politicians and students;
Franco's men were often waiting for wanted people a few miles
down the road.
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Can Cases Park is in the northwest of Martorell and
occupies an area of 22 hectares.
The park is divided into several areas with facilities forleisure activities (barbecues, playgrounds, etc.) and other
pure forest with 20 hectares of forest declared a public
utility.
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The district Torrent dels Llops in Martorell through the forest
park of Can Cases.
Its also a good place to observe the vegetation, with woods,and preserved wildilfewith over 70 species of birds and 30
species of butterflies, amphibians and reptilians well as
some typical Mediterranean environments.
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In this park we can do a lot of activities and play all sports.
In family, with friends, with the high school...
We can also see some different places and some different
spaces.
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In Can Cases there are different places.
We can found:
Barbecues zone, where people have lunch when therere
nice days, usually in spring. In summer, we cant use
them.
Baby parks. Young people use to go with their parents and
play there.
The natural places. We can see a river, a very big forest
and some different roads.
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There are some roads which arrive to other near
villages, like St. Esteve Sesrovires.
Parkings
Sport zones: families or friends normally go down
the park and play basketball or football. Old
people play bowls too.People use to running, bicycling or walking. In
summer its common see a lot of people practicing
sport or having a good time with friends or family.
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Barbecues zone
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Parkings
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Baby park
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Sports zones
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Natural places
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Roads
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Other places
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