La conca de Barberà

La conca de Barberà is located halfway between the Tarragona coast and the city og Lleida. One important village of La conca de Barberà is L’espluga de Francolí, this town is well known for its caves and as well as this natural undergound attraction, there is also the Museu del Vi (Wine Museum) and the Museu de la Vida Rural, a museum dedicated to Catalan country life.

In this comarca there are too another important village that is called Poblet, there are the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria de Poblet. It is the larges inhabited Cistercian monastery in Europe, and since,m a UNESCO Wordl Heritage Site. Foundaded in, it is one of a trio of Cistercian communities set un as part of the strategy of reorganisation and repopulation of “New Catalunya”, adopted by the Catalan-Aragonese rulers after the deafeat of the Moorish conquetors. Today it’s possible to visit about halfthe monastery, including the main cloister, the 13^th-century kitchen and dining-room and dormitories.

I saw all of this 3 times, because I was stay there, and I have to say that is a magic place that I think that all people have to see. =)