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| It belongs to the Catalan precoastal mountain range, although their materials and constitution comprise of the depression of the Ebro river, since it is not more than fluvial a alluvium deposit deposited by old rivers coming from the Catalan bulk and that they ended at the eocénico sea predecessor of the mentioned depression. The erosion differential has respected finest the heaviest materials and devastated, leaving the present bulk free that rises up to 1,224 ms. The action of the water has given rise to the spectacular forms in organ montserratinas, that confer to the bulk a very peculiar aspect. Montserrat in Castilian means mount sawn or cut to mountain range. |
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Monasterio de Montserrat - Montserrat
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 Monasterio de Montserrat - Montaña Montserrat |
| XII) of the Virgin with the boy venerates Jesus, of dark and carved face in wood. It is the pattern of Catalonia and dice its color, the Virgin has received on the part of the Catalan town the affectionate sobrename of the Moreneta. Remarkable cultural center and of liturgical formation, the monastery has a museum with works of Caravaggio, Berruguete and Van Dyck, among others, important library and the press that already existed in s. XV and XVI. The musical life of the monastery has had tradition and great quality throughout the centuries. In the destruction of the monastery on the part of the French troops in 1811, numerous codices and forms disappeared. The file conserves musical manuscripts from s. XI in Catalan, aquitana and German annotation. |
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