The building is one of the best examples of Catalan Gothic, both for the church and the three-storey cloister, one of the most spacious and harmonious examples of this style. Regarding the church itself, one notable feature is the tomb of Queen Elisenda with two separate sides, one facing the church, where her image shows her dressed as a sovereign, and one facing the cloister, where she is shown as a widow and a penitent. Likewise, the monastery is renowned for its 14th century stained-glass windows, numerous graves of noble families and the three choirs: the choir loft, the lower choir and the central monks’ choir.

Around the cloister inside the monastery, we can find a series of day cells, where the nuns retired for personal reflection. The chapel of Sant Miquel, commissioned by the abbess Sister Francesca ça Portella in 1343 to the painter Ferrer Bassa, stands out, with clear influence drawn from such important artists as Giotto, the workshop of the Lorenzetti and Simone Martini. (The temporary exhibition entitled Reopening of the chapel of Sant Miquel: Divine Murals delves into the chapel's murals.) The visit is rounded out by the chapter house, the abbey, the refectory, the kitchen, the storeroom, the dormitory and the infirmary, which is one of the best-preserved examples of a Renaissance hospital building.