In the courtyard

Outer Monastery Wall 

 The altar

 Interior view

Catalan royalty tombs

Sunday Jan. 22 AM:


On this beautiful morning we drove to Poblet Monastery.  Poblet is a Cistercian monastery whose monks, since its foundation in 1150, have followed the Rule of Saint Benedict. Closed down due to the State's laws in 1835, the monastery was refounded in 1940 by Italian monks of the same order. Today the monastery is composed of 32 monks. The tour was in Catalan but with Teresa as our translator we were well informed. The architecture was austere in keeping with the Benedictine order, but breathtaking in its scope and simplicity.