The 10 Best Things to do Good for Kids in Montserrat Mountains, Catalonia

Descubre Talamanca y el marco natural que la envuelve. Pasea a caballo por sus estrechas calles empedradas, visita el Castillo, la iglesia románica de Santa María y el monumento de la Batalla de Talamanca de 1714, disfruta de las vistas a Montserrat, al Pirineo y la singular silueta del Montcau. Todos nuestros compañeros caballos son rescatados, han recuperado la confianza y han dejado atrás un pasado gris...cuando no trabajan viven sueltos en manada en la finca...se trata de animales convencidos, no sometidos, lo que les convierte en seres muy equilibrados. Ven y compruébalo.

El Aeri de Montserrat es mucho más que un teleférico. Es una experiencia única para descubrir Montserrat desde el cielo, disfrutando de una excelente panorámica de la montaña mágica.

The Salt Mountain is a unique natural phenomenon in the world and is still growing while being eroded by the rain. Its 120 meters are just the tip of an enormous diapir nearly two kilometres deep. Lasting an hour, you will go down to a depth of 86 meters and enjoy the spectacle of shapes and textured features of the salt massif. The Salt Mountain Cultural Park also offers the visitor the option to walk through the old mining facilities. Beneath the imposing feature of the winding tower of the old mine shaft Maria Teresa lies the museum area: an open-air area that explains the history of the explotation of salt, the geology, the minerology and botany of this Area of Natural Interest, the Salt Valley of Cardona. The visitor can also see the shaft's mining machinery, which is a very good example of industry archaeology dessigned by Alsthom (currently Alstom) during the 1920s. A photographic exhibition can be seen in the basement. The old carpenter's workshop and the room where all the machinery used to be repaired house the Salt Handicraft Centre, Art-Sal and the exhibition Memory of the women from the mining neighborhood. We can also find there "La Cafeteria" with outdoor seating. At the reception, you can find "La Botigueta", a little shop with a wide selection of products and bibliography about Cardona.

The Santa Maria Basilica Collegiate of Manresa (the See) is one of the most representative examples of the Catalan Gothic and it is also a symbol and an icon of the Bages district capital. Located at the top of the Puigcardener, it sights the city at its foot from the left side of the Cardener River, at the bottom of the cliff. The See is, without any doubt, the main historical, identity and spiritual reference of all the Manresans. The privileges conceded by Pope Leo XIII in 1886 turned the temple into a Basilica.

La Sequia of Manresa is a canal that was built in the fourteenth century. And since then still fulfills its main function (bring water to the city of Manresa, and also tries to preserve the charm of the era in which it was built, respecting when it's possible, the original construction. Over la Sequia, visitors can walk and discover the flora and fauna around them, history full of legends and some of the most magical places in Catalonia. Parc de la Sequia, offers guided tours, workshops, children's activities and so on, so that visitors can discover and experience this magical canal. What is Parc de la Sequia? Taking advantage of the values ​​representing the canal and water born Parc de la Sequia to become a space of culture, leisure and education around the medieval canal in Pla de Bages. It is a brand that includes the medieval canal, built in the Middle Ages, a visitor's center, located in the Parc de l'Agulla, the Can Font's Water Centre and the Museum of Technology of Manresa.