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Trail of el Cister pel Priorat

la Morera de Montsant, Priorat, Tarragona

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Trail of el Cister pel Priorat

Curiosity · la Morera de Montsant, Priorat, Tarragona

Image of la Morera de Montsant, not of the place itself.

A stretch of the Ruta del Cister (Cistercian Route) that runs through the Priorat to the Cartoixa d'Escaladei, in the municipality of la Morera de Montsant, at the foot of the Montsant mountain range. The charterhouse, founded in 1194 by King Alfonso the Chaste, was the first Carthusian monastery on the Iberian Peninsula; its first monks arrived from the charterhouse of Provence and settled there permanently around 1203. It experienced its heyday in the 14th and 15th centuries as the richest charterhouse in the Carthusian province of Catalonia, until the secularisation of 1835 left it abandoned, looted and burned. Declared a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection) in 1980, it has been managed since 1990 by the Generalitat de Catalunya, which has carried out continuous restoration work since 1992.

Photo: Tabalot (Public domain)

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