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Extract from the Sant Cugat del Valls Travel Guides:
SANT CUGAT DEL VALLS
is the closest of the towns to Barcelona, and these days little more than a rich suburb of the city. It's easily reached by FGC train from Plaa de Catalunya in around twenty minutes. Here, the Benedictine
Reial Monestir
was founded as far back as the ninth century, though most of the surviving buildings date from three or four hundred years later. Finest of them is a beautiful twelfth-century Romanesque cloister (June-Sept Tues-Sat 10am-1pm & 3.30-5.30pm; Oct-May Tues-Sat 10am-1pm; ?1.80) with noteworthy capital carvings of mythical beasts and biblical scenes. They have an unusual homogeneity since...
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