Best trips on Get my guide to cover Montserrat - Monastery, Black Madonna and Cogswheel train and the Funicular. Are the guided ones a must do? Thanks!
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Guided bus tours are never a must do, especially to Montserrat Monastery. Also, some of those bus tours are just transportation and then they let you wander by yourself for 2 hours, then back on the bus.
Assuming you can get yourself to the Plaça Espanya train station and If you are comfortable buying your own train tickets and walking from the train platform at Monistrol de Montserrat to the rack railway, I recommend doing it yourself. That's what we did. By doing it yourself, you can spend as much time there as you want, including any short hikes after taking the Funicular de Sant Joan to the top. We spent over 4 hours there, so with the transport time, it was an all day affair.
Here is a website that explains how to DIY:
https://www.barcelona-tourist-guide.com/en/tour/train-journey-barcelona-to-montserrat.html