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                <title>Montserrat</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Not exactly in Barcelona, but nevertheless a fantastic day trip, the monastery of Montserrat is absolutely magnificent.<br><br>First and foremost: the landscape. You can see it coming from a mile off; weird bulbous rock formations bulging out. <br><br>On the way up, there's a fantastic Romanesque chapel with amazing frescoes, and the whole area is riddled with hermits' caves. <br><br>The church itself is vast, 1000m above sea-level, and (oddly) reassuringly hideous in scale and detail. <br><br>Still, it's a mighty impressive spectacle and the surrounding countryside is simply breathtaking.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Cactus garden</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Of all the things that beguiled me in Barcelona, this did it the most. This botanical garden on the sea-side of Montjuic (the headland at the southern end of Barcelona's coast) would be better suited the pages of a Dr Seuss book than to this world. The species themselves, some of which stand at well over two metres in height, come from all over - Central and South America, as well as Africa.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Llobregat Delta Nature Reserve</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A medium-sized wetland reserve right next to Barcelona El Prat Airport. Hundreds of birds and a nice beach too (if you don't mind the sound/sight of jets passing overhead about every 2 minutes!).]]></description>
                
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