Catalonia's premier residential town for relocating families — twenty minutes from Barcelona, behind the green wall of Collserola.

Families who move to Catalonia with school-age children almost always end up looking at Sant Cugat — and usually stay. The reason is concentration: several of the region's leading international schools, the ESADE campus and UAB university within reach, a golf club a century old, and villa districts like Valldoreix and La Floresta where houses sit in gardens under pines. It is the address we recommend most often when the brief says: children, schools, and Barcelona close but not on top of us.