It is Natural Park, it is a Cistercian Monastery and it is a Hotel & Spa with restaurants and several museums . In 1218 the religious community settled here and 800 years later another type of parishioner makes pilgrimage here: the traveler: an average of 250,000 visitors a year (among them, mainly, Spanish tourists but also French, British, Portuguese, American, Russian, German , Dutch, Belgian and other countries) convert the stone monastery in the star destination of Zaragoza.
José Pont, general director of the Monasterio de Piedra, tells Traveler.es that the secret is "the impressive nature of the park. If you look at the comments left by users on TripAdvisor or Facebook, the most recurring word when describing the visit is oasis And, without a doubt, what impresses the most are the caves (particularly the Gruta Iris, of incomparable beauty) and the beauty of the water and the waterfalls that populate the route".
The 13th century monastery is still preserved, an architectural jewel that combines elements of Romanesque and Gothic. Converted into a hotel, it has 62 rooms renovated from the old cells of the monks , overlooking the Park and the Cloister. "The dining room of the Reyes de Aragón restaurant (with the advice of Enrique Martínez - Maher -) corresponds to the old common bedroom of the Stone monks", Pont tells us, who recommends his migas and the Aragonese lamb.
The place names seem from a novel by George R.R: Martin: Diana's Bath , the Lake of the Ducks, the Trinidad Waterfall, the Panther Grottoes, of the Bacchante and the Artist, the Mirror Lake and the La Caprichosa Waterfall. In 2017 they are absolutely instagrammable.