It's a short transfer to the train station to collect your car this morning. Leaving Barcelona you'll head up into the Montserrat Natural Park, home to a fabled Benedictine abbey tucked away in a massif of rounded limestone towers.

It is a breathtaking sight to behold even if you just wandered about a bit. But with us, you'll have all the access and insider knowledge you need to make today special.

It's one thing to admire the hushed beauty of the abbey, quite another to feel the power of its acoustics as the choirboys fill the air with haunting song. Taking in the might of the mountains from ground level is satisfying enough, but riding the funicular up above the crinkled green hills to walk between quiet chapels reveals vistas you'll never forget. Walking back down as the abbey and the towers glow in the afternoon light brings a majesty all of its own.

Later you'll finish at your next hotel, a stunning 5-room Modernist house on a historic family winery in the Cava wine region.

Drive 1h30m, 100km