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Over the years, a simple little cave has become the city's greatest, most ostentatious monument. A large sanctuary has been built literally above the cave, which has become indisputably the key Ignatian site, and one of the universal landmarks of the Jesuit world.
In the cave, landscape and architecture blend surprisingly, forming an artificial façade on Sant Bartomeu hill, which is one of the most visible elements at the entrance to Manresa.
Visiting times for the Sanctuary:
From Tuesday to Saturday from 10am to 1pm and from 4 to 7pm. (from March at October) and from 3 to 6pm
(from November to February). Sundays and public holidays 10am to 12 noon
Saint Ignatius' Cave
Camí de la Cova, s/n
Manresa
+34 93 875 15 79
www.covamanresa.cat
Price
Visit without guide: voluntary donation
Saint Ignatius' Cave
In one of the caves in this place typical of the landscape of Manresa, in an opening but with a view from the front of the mountain of Montserrat, tradition says that Saint Ignatius of Loyola retired for a time to meditate and write his famous Spiritual Exercises.Over the years, a simple little cave has become the city's greatest, most ostentatious monument. A large sanctuary has been built literally above the cave, which has become indisputably the key Ignatian site, and one of the universal landmarks of the Jesuit world.
In the cave, landscape and architecture blend surprisingly, forming an artificial façade on Sant Bartomeu hill, which is one of the most visible elements at the entrance to Manresa.
Visiting times for the Sanctuary:
From Tuesday to Saturday from 10am to 1pm and from 4 to 7pm. (from March at October) and from 3 to 6pm
(from November to February). Sundays and public holidays 10am to 12 noon
Saint Ignatius' Cave
Camí de la Cova, s/n
Manresa
+34 93 875 15 79
www.covamanresa.cat
Price
Visit without guide: voluntary donation
