{"id":14581,"date":"2011-08-22T00:01:59","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T07:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=14581"},"modified":"2011-10-01T22:02:36","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T05:02:36","slug":"monasterio-de-santa-maria-de-montserrat-montserrat-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/14581","title":{"rendered":"Monasterio de Santa Maria de Montserrat, Montserrat, Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once at the Monastery of Saint Mary of Montserrat, one approaches the basilica from Plaza de Santa Maria, enters a roofless, interior courtyard, and then enters the basilica itself .\u00a0 Above the doorways to the basilica is a bas relief depiction of Christ and the Apostles .\u00a0 Above the main altar hangs a crucifix with an ivory sculpture of Christ attributed to Michelangelo .\u00a0 Behind and above the altar, one can see an arched window opening to the Black Madonna of Monterrat, commonly known as La Moreneta (The Dark-Skinned One).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Gateway-to-the-Monastery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14582\" title=\"Approching the Basilica of Montserrat from Plaza de Santa Maria\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Gateway-to-the-Monastery.jpg\" alt=\"Approching the Basilica of Montserrat from Plaza de Santa Maria\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Gateway-to-the-Monastery.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Gateway-to-the-Monastery-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Gateway-to-the-Monastery-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Approaching the Basilica of Montserrat from Plaza de Santa Maria<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 Approaching the Basilica of Montserrat from Plaza de Santa Maria (Montserrat, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 04 August 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Inside-Courtyard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14583\" title=\"In the Courtyard before the Basilica of Montserrat\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Inside-Courtyard.jpg\" alt=\"In the Courtyard before the Basilica of Montserrat\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Inside-Courtyard.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Inside-Courtyard-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Inside-Courtyard-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>In the Courtyard before the Basilica of Montserrat<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 In the Courtyard before the Basilica of Montserrat (Montserrat, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 04 August 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Christ-and-Apostles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14584\" title=\"Christ and the Apostles above the Door to the Basilica of Montserrat\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Christ-and-Apostles.jpg\" alt=\"Christ and the Apostles above the Door to the Basilica of Montserrat\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Christ-and-Apostles.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Christ-and-Apostles-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Christ-and-Apostles-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Christ and the Apostles above the Door to the Basilica of Montserrat<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 Christ and the Apostles above the Door to the Basilica of Montserrat (Montserrat, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 04 August 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Montserrat-Basilica.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14585\" title=\"Inside the Basilica of Montserrat\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Montserrat-Basilica.jpg\" alt=\"Inside the Basilica of Montserrat\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Montserrat-Basilica.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Montserrat-Basilica-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Montserrat-Basilica-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Inside the Basilica of Montserrat<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0 Inside the Basilica of Montserrat (Montserrat, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 04 August 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2011 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once at the Monastery of Saint Mary of Montserrat, one approaches the basilica from Plaza de Santa Maria, enters a roofless, interior courtyard, and then enters the basilica itself .\u00a0 Above the doorways to the basilica is a bas relief &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/14581\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[311,318,330],"class_list":["post-14581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","tag-mediterranean-vacation","tag-montserrat","tag-spain"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-3Nb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14581"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14912,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14581\/revisions\/14912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}