Day: April 15, 2025

Monasterio de Piedra to El Saler

This morning before we left the Monasterio de Piedra we took a Monastery tour. It was in Spanish so I didn’t learn a lot but it was still imteresting.

The former church has collapsed
They used alabaster for the windows when they built the church in the 13th century

I said yesterday that the building had recently become a hotel, but I learned that actually it was in 1835 that the monastic community ended. The buildings were converted to a hotel in the mid 1800s.

This is the former monastery kitchen. The roof is black because of the smoke from the cooking fires. According to the signs this is the first place in Europe that cacao was processed!

We finished the tour, checked out and around noon headed southeast about three hours to the Parador de El Saler, our 94th Parador!! We are now on the Mediterranean for the first time on this trip. The parador is also associated with a golf course.

The view of the Mediterranean from the hall outside our room.
The view of the golf course from our room.

We ate dinner in the Parador bar. We shared seafood paella.

Dinner