the Mon St benet is gorgeous. we visited here whilst having a wedding brunch in the gardens, was really worth it!

A disappointing experience. It's an interesting place with a fascinating history and they have a good collection of art and artefacts but the monastery has been turned into a cheesy audio visual experience. You get ushered into the rooms, then the lights go down and videos are automatically projected onto objects and walls. The footage was mainly fake antique cinema with actors. The computer animated imagery was clunky and unconvincing. Only when the high-tech presentation was finished were we permitted to move on to the next room. We were ushered through the buildings from station to station. I just wanted to leave and explore the place for myself. The guide was nice but he didn't really know that much, to be fair he had just started on the job. The experience was expensive too - over 23 euros to attend both the Medieval and Modernista tours. Terrible value for money and an experience I would neither recommend nor wish to repeat. It is a shame as I felt that they had choked the place with technology and in doing so rendered it soulless. It's a video experience housed in a medieval building. I am sure that the 10th century building would have been a much more interesting place 30 years ago than it is today.