The cloister was a place of passing through where the monk prepared his spirit. It communicated the main premises of the monastery. It has two floors: the lower one with pairs of ogee arches where we may find portraits of figures from the 15th century (monks, popes, kings, noblemen, merchants…), and the upper one with diminished arches.

The cloister, made out of Montjuïc stone, was built by the master builders Jaume Alfons, Pere Basset and Joan Safont. The garden recreates the Garden of Eden, with plants of several species. In the middle there is an eight-starred Renaissance fountain with the coats of arms of the monastery’s founder, Bertran Nicolau.

There is also a well, from 1470, and the myrtle, the shrub that lends its name to the monastery. It is over 150 years old. In the cloister, the portraits of the Catholic Kings and Columbus, who was received at La Murtra when he came back from his first journey to America, stand out.