This guide on how to get from Barcelona to Montserrat will show you the best options to carry out this transfer in the most comfortable and fast way.
The mountain of Montserrat, located just over 30 kilometers from Barcelona, is one of the natural wonders of Catalonia thanks to its curious rock formations resulting from erosion and its emblematic monastery.
In addition to visiting the monastery and seeing the Virgin of Montserrat, popularly known as the Moreneta, we recommend you to do some hiking route through this unique landscape.
To visit Montserrat, if you do not have a car, you can choose to take a half or one day tour by train or bus, considered one of the best excursions in Barcelona.
Based on the experience of the many times we have visited this impressive place, in the last we wrote this guide of Barcelona in 4 days, we show you all the ways of to get to Montserrat from Barcelona, so you can choose the one that best suits your needs. We start!
Train from Barcelona to Montserrat
The most common way of go from Barcelona to Montserrat It is to take one of the R5 trains of the R5 line in the direction of Manresa that leave every half hour from the Plaza de España station. To get to this station you can take the line 1 (red color) or the 3 (green color) subway to the Espanya stop. It is advisable to arrive in advance and once at the station follow the signs that indicate the R5 line.
This train that leaves from 8:30 am will take you in one hour to the Aeri de Montserrat stop where you can get on a cable car that leaves every 15 minutes and takes 5 minutes to reach the monastery.
Another alternative is to get off at the next stop (Monistrol de Montserrat) to catch the rack railway that leaves every 30 minutes (in high season) or one hour (low season) and takes 20 minutes.
Depending on the option you choose to climb to Montserrat you must buy a type of ticket at the ticket office of the station, located in front of the platform of Line R5.
To save money we recommend buying the Trans Montserrat ticket for 33.45 euros which includes round-trip train tickets (23 euros), the cable car or rack railway (12 euros), the subway ticket, the entrance to an audiovisual space , the funicular of Sant Joan and that of Santa Cova, when it is operational. These last two funiculars are caught in the area of the monastery and allow you to visit other incredible places on the mountain of Montserrat.
There is another combined ticket that is the "Tot Montserrat"for 53 euros which also includes food and the entrance to the museum.
Montserrat
How to get to Montserrat from Barcelona by bus
The cheapest way to get from Barcelona to Montserrat It is to take a bus from the Autocars Julià company at the Sants Station, which costs about 5 euros.
These buses that take you to the Montserrat Monastery in an hour and a half, only have one departure at 9:15 a.m. and a return at 6:00 p.m. It is advisable to check the schedules on this page before leaving.
A more comfortable and interesting option to get to Montserrat from Barcelona by bus is to book this excursion with a guide in Spanish that includes the rack railway and tickets.
Other interesting excursions to Montserrat from Barcelona by bus and with a guide in Spanish are:
How to go from Barcelona to Montserrat
Tips for visiting Montserrat
Once you are clear how to get from Barcelona to Montserrat We advise you to read this list of tips that will help you prepare your visit:
- The visiting hours at the Montserrat monastery are from 7 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. and the schedule to access the Camarín de la Virgen de Montserrat is from 7 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. and from 12 a.m. to 6:15 p.m.
- The choir's children sing during mass every day at 1 noon, except Saturday, and on Sundays at 12, inside the basilica.
- The average duration of the visit to Montserrat is about 3 hours, which will increase if you want to do some trekking route.
- The visit to Santa Cova, a small chapel where La Moreneta was found and an important pilgrimage site, is essential. To get there you can walk half an hour through a fantastic landscape or take a funicular.
- One of the most impressive hiking trails with the best views of Montserrat is the one that reaches the peak of Sant Jeroni, the highest in Montserrat with 1,236 meters. The duration of the trekking is 3 hours and a half that you can shorten to 2 hours and half if you take the funicular of Sant Joan.
- If you prefer a less demanding route you can take a half-hour walk to the Cross of San Miquel, a place with good views of the monastery between the mountains of Montserrat.
- For lunch you have the Hostal Abat Cisneros, a historic building with capacity for 120 people, and the Montserrat Restaurant with views of the surroundings. Other cheaper fast food options are La Cafeteria or Bar de la Plaça or if you bring food you also have a picnic area.
Basilica of Montserrat
