Camino Ignaciano: Montserrat to Manresa (Day 14)
Day 14: Montserrat to Manresa Stage 12 of the Camino The final walk! This is it! It's the last day of our Camino! From Montserrat, we quickly started walking towards Manresa. Both places were apart by 9 kilometers and entailed us climbing a combination of rocky paths and dusty roads in order to move from one mountain to the next. There were many spots where, if you stopped to take a look, you would see the mountains of Montserrat on one side and the city of Manresa on the other side. But other than that, the scenery was largely unremarkable, interspersed with the occasional steep climb which made me wonder how St. Ignatius went through it all. A sign that you were nearing Manresa was the old Tower of Santa Caterina. This cylindrical tower stands alone atop a plateau, waving the Catalunya flag. Here, you have an unobstructed view of the city of Manresa in all directions. At the Tower of Santa Caterina. Below, the city of Manresa awaits. From the old Tower, th
