A group of buildings consisting of the church, the tower and the farmhouse, constructed in different periods and now abandoned. Adjoining the farmhouse is what was once the chapel of an important monastery of devout women who had given themselves to God, called deodades in Catalan. (In Catalan, the term ‘monastery’ is used for religious communities outside city walls, and ‘convent’ for those inside city walls, regardless of whether the community consisted of monks or nuns.) Dating from 1175, this chapel passed in 1226 into the hands of the Benedictine nuns in the Cistercian Order. This was the origin of the Valldonzella monastery for women.

The surviving parts of the chapel consist of the rectangular apse with a splayed double window, followed by a nave with neatly dressed blocks of stone, pointing to a construction date of the 12th century, and a roof with flat ceiling and beams, supported by round arches, apart from the oratory, which has vaults.

How to get there: From Vallvidrera or from Santa Creu d’Olorda. However, the simplest route leaves Sant Feliu de Llobregat, passes by the Shrine of La Salut and follows the Riera de Santa Creu gully. A hundred metres from the Bishop’s Tower or the Lower Tower, we find the Upper Tower or Tower of Santa Margarida at the foot of the Can Parellada gully.