Qualla: Montblanc https://qualla.com/montblanc en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:03 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/g/montblanc-wk/hero-small.webp Qualla: Montblanc https://qualla.com/montblanc Montblanc: Introduction https://qualla.com/montblanc/ Photo credit Till F. Teenck, CC BY-SA 2.5. Every April, Catalonia gives roses and books to the people it loves, in honor of a saint who killed a dragon. And in Montblanc, they will tell you this is where he did it. According to the legend the Catalans have cherished for centuries, a dragon once terrorized the town, its hunger appeased by a grim lottery of victims, until the lot fell at last to the king's own daughter. As the princess waited at the gates, a knight named Jordi, Saint George, rode the dragon down and ran it through, and from the pool of its blood sprang a rosebush in full bloom. Whether or not a dragon ever menaced these ramparts, Montblanc wears the story proudly. It is a town that has always understood the value of a good legend, and the value of a good wall.

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/g/montblanc-wk/sp2g-montblanc-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Montblanc: A Town Behind Walls https://qualla.com/montblanc/ Photo credit Jordi Roqué, CC BY-SA 3.0. Montblanc is a medieval town that still looks the part. Its defining feature is its ring of stone, a walled enclosure begun in 1366 under King Peter the Ceremonious, running some 1,500 meters around the old town and once studded with 28 towers and a series of fortified gates name...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/g/montblanc-wk/sp2g-montblanc-a-town-behind-walls.mp3 0:06 2 full Montblanc: The Cathedral of the Mountain https://qualla.com/montblanc/ Photo credit Alberto Fernandez Fernandez, CC BY 2.5. The grandest building in Montblanc was never finished. The church of Santa Maria la Major, which locals call the Cathedral of the Mountain, was rising in soaring Gothic when the Black Death swept through in the 14th century and drained the town of the hands and money to complete ...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/g/montblanc-wk/sp2g-montblanc-the-cathedral-of-the-mountain.mp3 0:06 3 full Montblanc: Stones, Grain, and Grinding https://qualla.com/montblanc/ Photo credit Jordi Roqué, CC BY-SA 3.0. Montblanc's story is not all kings and cathedrals; much of it is written in the plain machinery of daily life. In the main square stands the Font Major, a monumental fountain built in 1804, and beneath the arcaded Porxos de cal Malet sit the old stone measures once used to portio...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/g/montblanc-wk/sp2g-montblanc-stones-grain-and-grinding.mp3 0:06 4 full Montblanc: The Cathedrals of Wine https://qualla.com/montblanc/ Photo credit Jordi Roqué, CC BY-SA 3.0. For all its antiquity, Montblanc never stopped building. On the edge of the old town rises the Celler Cooperatiu, a wine cooperative designed in the early 20th century by the modernist architect Cesar Martinell, one of the great brick-and-tile 'cathedrals of wine' that lent Catal...

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