It’s easy to travel today, by bus and using the stairs. However, for centuries and centuries, communication with a monastery used to be through a pulley, a rock and a net.
People, regardless of who they were, even if they were bishops, princes and kings, when they wanted to visit these monasteries they had to be placed in a net and to be pulled up 300 meters to the monastery.
Even the building equipment, material and the goods, all had to go up there with a pulley. Are you ready for that faith test?
Many times, this pulley helped people “to be glorified” very quickly. The pulley was going down, and the soul up at the same time.
Nearby, close to the Monastery of Santa Barbara, gardeners worked on a new vineyard.
In the front, panoramically, we saw Santa Barbara and at a shorter rock we saw the walls of the ruin Monastery of Mary’s Birthdate .
Winding through the mountains, the bus passed several monasteries and beautiful scenery.