The best gravel rides around Fulleda

Montblanc seems to have been frozen in time. Its walls, fortified gates, towers, and historic center retain a medieval character that invites you to explore it.

Along with the monasteries of Poblet and Santes Creus, this is one of the three pearls of Gothic architecture in Catalonia. You won't be disappointed.

very pretty town

Beautiful medieval monastery from the Cistercian era, still inhabited by nuns.

The monastery of Santa María de Vallbona is a female Cistercian abbey founded in the 11th century and built in a mixture of Romanesque and Gothic styles. Together with the Poblet and Santes Creus monasteries, it forms the Cistercian Route.

Belonging to the district of Vallbona de les Monges, Montblanquet is a small town in the Sierra del Tallat, on the border between the counties of Conca de Barberà and El Urgell. Among its heritage stands out the church of Sant Andreu de Montblanquet, from the 13th century, with a single nave and Cistercian inspiration. The old washrooms, the communal oven and a couple of fountains are also preserved. In the Plaza Mayor there is a stamp for the Ruta del Cister (a cupboard inside which there is a stamp for the route).

Municipality of the province of Tarragona, in the region of Conca de Barberà. The origin of the town is in the castle that Ponç de Cervera built on top of a nearby mountain in the 11th century. In the middle of the 13th century, the castle became dependent on the monastery of Poblet and the Templars, and in the lower part the encomienda of the Espluga de Francolí was established, under the jurisdiction of the hospital order. In the year 1312, the year of the extinction of the Order of the Temple, the Espluga de Francolí acquires the full señorío. Among the cultural heritage stands out the old hospital of the Order of San Juan, which currently houses the Mosén Ramón Muntanyola library, the Museo de la Vida Rural, the modernist cooperative winery Celler Cooperatiu, the work of Pere Domènech i Roura, or the Fassina Balanyà, former alcohol factory, today converted into one of the twenty-five industrial museums of the System of the National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia.

The monastery of Santa María de Vallbona is the most important female Cistercian monastery in Catalonia. It has maintained its monastic activity uninterruptedly for more than 800 years. Its beginnings, at the beginning of the 12th century, were as a mixed group of hermits who followed the Rule of Sant Benet, later converted into monastics, under the pastoral staff of its founder, Ramón de Vallbona. In 1175 the monks moved to Montsant, leaving the female monastic community in Vallbona, which joined the Cistercian order. The monastery is made up of the temple, presided over by the Mare de Déu del cor, in the usual sober and slightly ornamented style of the order, and by the trapezoidal-shaped cloister, and the other dependencies (chapter house, the archive and the old pharmacy).