Prades

Last weekend we spent 3 days around Prades, a medival village in the mountains near Tarragona. The old town is nice and the region offers good trekking posibilities. Close to the village lies the hermitage of L'Abellera in the middle of a rocky wall. Another nice place is Mussara, an abandoned village near a cliff on a mountain. On the way to Prades we visited the Santes Creus monastery with a beautiful cloister and on the way back we stopped in Poblet, another monastery next to Montblanc.

Santes Creus monastery

The abandoned village of Mussara

Church and town gate of Prades

Hermitage of L'Abellera

Poblet monastery

Nuria

Last weekend we went to Nuria in the Pyrenees at an altitude of 2000 meters. To get there we took a rack railway for 40 minutes to get up to the lake where we slept in the hotel. We were lucky with the weather, although it was windy and a bit cold we could escape the rain till Sunday afternoon when we went back. We went walking down a mountain to the lake and on the other day we had fun with an orienteering hike.

Nuria surrounded by mountains up 3000

 meters

Nuria with its small lake at 2000 meters