Mon St Benet: A Thousand-Year Old Monastery Tour Just 40-Minutes from Barcelona

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Discover the thousand-year old Mon St Benet monastery, located just 40 minutes from Barcelona. Explore its rich history, stunning architecture, and indulge in Catalan cuisine.

Duration: 1 hour

Cancellation: 24 hours

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Highlights

Mon St Benet - Món Sant Benet is a unique cultural and leisure project. This unparalleled complex boasts a mediaeval monastery just a few metres away from an innovative international culinary research centre. The complex is just outside of Barcelona, in incomparable natural surroundings.
The medieval tour in the monastery (One thousand years of…

What's Included

Audio guide included

What's Not Included

Transportation to/from attractions
Drinks
Hotel pickup and drop-off
Lunch
Gratuities

Additional Information

Explore a monastery that’s been standing for a millennium, conveniently located 40 minutes away from Barcelona, amidst incredible natural surroundings. Take a trip back in time as you discover Catalan history through the monastery museum. Experience the key elements of this medieval monastery, such as its church and cloister. Beyond its historical…

Location

Mon St Benet

Cami Sant Benet, s/n,

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings

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512soln

Jul 28, 2025

The rigi DEz of the visitation time, EN the Monestir DE Sant Benet.. - Monestir DE Sant Benet el Bag ES is a medieval monastery DE the 10th century, one DE the best preserved DE Catalunya with olographies that teach us the past of the Benedictine order that made wine. The one I see wrong ES such a strict control for visitors that they leave NO room to look at one thing if you want twice. Those who enter with audio guides are also subject to strict control and people can NO longer go to their air with the respect required by the visit. When selling you the ticket, try to EN whatever you also eat in their restaurant, expensive and NO DE everyone's taste, even if they have 1 Michelin star granted from COVID, so that they NO closed. The Casas artist’s mornista house he used as a summer residence is also worth seeing, but it sticks to 1 hour and in a hurry. The Monastery seems to belong to the Abbey DE Montserrat, POR being DE órn Benedictina and is managed by the Generalitat de Catalunya which has NO knowledge that with audio guides people DE have more time and interest POR the place. And to be able to come in when he arrives and NO with that rigidity that seems to have to be registered as EN work. That DEtracts and scares the desire to return.

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Esquinso

Apr 22, 2025

pleasantly surprised - It's a little monastery, with a lot of history. But certainly what we liked the most was how it is told. The audio guide is amazing. Told in the first person by the last abbot who had the monastery and supported by a series of videos, light games and holograms in different rooms that immerses you in history. It is certainly the best audio guide I remember in museums or monuments.

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308merchem

Aug 27, 2024

Too expensive for the service offered. - The setting to visit is very nice and the audio guide is very interesting but the price is too much for the activity offered.

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Johnebcn

May 15, 2019

Medieval & Modernista visit - A disappointing experience. It's an interesting place with a fascinating history and they have a good collection of art and artefacts but the monastery has been turned into a cheesy audio visual experience. You get ushered into the rooms, then the lights go down and videos are automatically projected onto objects and walls. The footage was mainly fake antique cinema with actors. The computer animated imagery was clunky and unconvincing. Only when the high-tech presentation was finished were we permitted to move on to the next room. We were ushered through the buildings from station to station. I just wanted to leave and explore the place for myself. The guide was nice but he didn't really know that much, to be fair he had just started on the job. The experience was expensive too - over 23 euros to attend both the Medieval and Modernista tours. Terrible value for money and an experience I would neither recommend nor wish to repeat. It is a shame as I felt that they had choked the place with technology and in doing so rendered it soulless. It's a video experience housed in a medieval building. I am sure that the 10th century building would have been a much more interesting place 30 years ago than it is today.

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