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Escaladei Charterhouse – Escaladei Village loop from la Morera de Montsant

La Morera De Montsant

Escaladei Charterhouse – Escaladei Village loop from la Morera de Montsant

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Escaladei Charterhouse – Escaladei Village loop from la Morera de Montsant

02:03

20.6km

630m

Gravel riding

Hard gravel ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: August 16, 2026

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Includes a very steep uphill segment

You may need to push your bike.

After 19.8 km for 458 m

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Church of Mare de Déu de la Nativitat, La Morera de Montsant

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Church of the Morera de Montsant, a town in Priorat located at an altitude of 743 metres. The temple, of Romanesque construction, was built with stone with reinforcing buttresses and stands out for its square-shaped bell tower.

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View of the Montsant Range

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At the starting point of the monastery Esclaladei in Priorat go some hiking trails. You can hike around the monastery, or climb a little higher into the Montsant massif or use it as an entry point for the long-distance hiking trail around the Priory. A nice starting point with a huge backdrop.

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La Pietat Hermitage

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Building in the Morera de Montsant, located at an altitude of 550 metres. The building was promoted by the Bishop of Urgell.

In its beginnings, it was used as a rest home and oratory. Later the construction became a farm and a hermitage until it passed into private hands and, finally, it was abandoned.

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Monastery of Santa Maria de Montserrat

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Escaladei Charterhouse

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Walk around Escaladei and learn about the monastery, founded in the 12th century by French Carthusian monks from Provence and the first of its kind in the Iberian Peninsula. The monks chose a unique place for its construction, located at the foot of the Montsant massif, where a shepherd had dreamed of angels climbing to heaven on a ladder leaning against a large pine tree; hence the name Escaladei – “God's Ladder”.

The ladder to heaven, or ladder to God, can be found again today in the priory logo.

The charterhouse existed until 1835 and lived through periods of great splendor. For seven centuries the monks tilled the fields, built mills and taught agricultural techniques and viticulture. The prior, hence the name of the region, was the judge and administrator of the villages in the center of what is now the county, roughly corresponding to what is now the Priorat growing area.

With the secularization of the church property (expropriation) by Mendizábal (1835), the monks were forced to flee suddenly, leaving their cells, the cloisters, the church and the guest house abandoned. In just two years, the once-magnificent Charterhouse was reduced to rubble as peasants weary of servitude, tithes, and submission plundered it.

The monastery ruins are open to the public: visitors are led to the three cloisters, the church and the dining room, as well as to a cell that has been reconstructed with great care.

A visit to the Carthusian monastery of Escaladei is a must for anyone who wants to discover the origins of the Priorat region.

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