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Page from one of the photo albums of the monastery of Sant Pere de les Puel·les in Barcelona with images taken in the Sau swamp (Osona) in the summer of 1971 during one of the community’s first holiday outings.

Date
1971
Archive
ACUB Cultural Area of ​​Benedictines
Document type
Imatge fixa
Reference code
CAT-AMSPP-MSPP
Link to the archive
Description

This image shows the opening of female monastic life after the Second Vatican Council, when the original monastic rules were returned and the Benedictine female communities were able to gradually abandon the strict cloister that had been imposed on them over the centuries. At the end of the sixties of the 20th century, the nuns of Sant Pere de les Puel·les began to enjoy group holidays, these were in Fulgeroles, and inserted the female religious communities within the mass phenomenon that Europe still experiences: tourism.