Discovering Sant Cugat
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Sant Cugat, Smart Meeting 04 innovation, The 10 essentials 08 How to get there 10 history and Surroundings 12 Getting about 13 nature Discovering Sant Cugat 14 INDEX Meetup Spaces 30 Singular Locations 44 Accommodation 52 Tourism Office 62 Map 63 Everything is easier in Sant Cugat, get to know the place and you’ll quickly discover why. It’s the ideal place Smart to live, study, work, have fun and do business. Getting around on foot or cycling are the best options because everything is nearby. Dynamic and creative, it’s one of Catalonia’s most competitive cities but still retains that Meeting small town feel. Sant Cugat is well connected: a mere fifteen minutes from Barcelona and the international airport. It has excellent public transport combinations, like the 20 minute commuter train ride into Barcelona city centre every 3 minutes. 4 5 This millenary city is known for being innovative and entrepreneurial. Its powerful personality has made it a pioneer in developing the elements required to run a smart city. Sant Cugat designs a future based on efficiency and sustainability to improve the quality of life of its citizens. If there’s a predominant colour in Sant Cugat, it’s green. Over 45% of its territory lies inside a natural park, the Collserola mountain range. A young city and one of the most qualified in Catalonia, it gathers over 10.000 students in five different, specialised and internationally recognised universities. 6 7 It’s also an entrepreneurial city with start-up incubators, and natural environments, as well as charming locations 1 auditorium for 700 people a business park with 2.700 companies, several that make each event a unique experience. multinationals and a notable pharmaceutical cluster, Singular venues with a capacity for all supported and complemented by knowledge hubs After work, when it’s time to relax, the city offers every 600 attendees and universities. possible option. Nature and sports enthusiasts have an entire natural park to enjoy, or you can travel back in A variety of meeting rooms Its characteristic professional focus makes Sant Cugat time and explore the monastic complex of Sant Cugat, the preferred location for various meetings, conventions, do a little shopping while you’re walking around the Over 1.400 beds in 3 and 4 star congresses and events. Examples include the Sant city and then why not explore Mercantic, a genuine hotels Cugat Tribuna business forums, which focus on permanent market with furniture, antiques and curios. economic and business interests and are recognised as A city of endless possibilities where the day can quite Sant Cugat, the intelligent choice a benchmark for debate. easily end with an excellent meal or perhaps a show. Everything’s possible in Sant Cugat. The city offers a wide range of venues, from the most modern meeting rooms to academic, business, urban Singular, The 10 essentials Mercantic quality retail The most original antiques, offering streets and plazas vintage articles, artisan and full of authentic shops, interior decorating market in charming window displays Spain and a European reference. and attentive personnel. The Modernist and City Museums Novecentist Route Three unique museums: the Royal Monastery A walk through the Eixample Monastery Museum, to learn Theatre-Auditorium 8 of Sant Cugat of the end of the 19th century 9 about the life of the monks and The best theatre, music, dance Its artistic quality makes it reveals the second residences the architecture of the monument; and opera suggestions. one of the most exceptional of Barcelona’s bourgeoisie, the the beauty of the Modernist Wine Romanesque cloisters pottery kiln, vintage shops and Cellar and the Contemporary in Europe, boasting 144 Modernist Wine Cellar. Tapestry Museum, unique in its Romanesque capitals. subject matter. 13 urban parks 716.086 m2 of parks for everyone. Gastronomic venues Collserola Natural Park A varied offer to try the best The city that lives for sport Discover, take a walk and international and local cuisine. First-class sports installations, one of practice sports in over 8.000 ha the most important High Performance of nature reserve. Centres (HPR) and highly active citizens who love sports. How to get there BY PLANE Barcelona airport is 26 km away (about thirty minutes by car) and offers every type of national and international connection. Transport services to the airport include taxi or public transport from Barcelona city centre. For more information aeropuertobarcelona-elprat.com The Girona-Costa Brava airport is 87 km away and at least one hour’s drive on the motorway. For more information girona-airport.cat 10 11 BY RAIL BY CAR Sant Cugat is very well connected by road. The main access routes are: Sant Cugat is well connected with neighbouring towns by public transport, both trains and inter-city bus. AP-7: South Barcelona - Tarragona - Castellon - Valencia. AP-7: North Girona - France. Regional RENFE has a stop in the city and connects with the international stations AP-2: Barcelona - Lleida - Zaragoza. of Sants and França via the R8 line. C16, E9: Vallvidrera Tunnels, direct to Barcelona in 10 minutes. For more information renfe.com/viajeros/cercanias/barcelona The Collserola Natural Park can also be crossed by car on the Rabassada and Vallvidrera secondary roads linking Sant Cugat and Barcelona. BY COMMUTER RAIL There are several FGC rapid transit lines (S1, S2, S5 and S55) linking Barcelona BY SEA and Sant Cugat with stops in all of Barcelona’s main stations. Barcelona has one of the biggest international cruise ports in the world and Sant The Barcelona-Sant Cugat commute lasts about 20 minutes Cugat can be reached in just a few minutes from the city centre of Barcelona. (check timetables on fgc.cat). For more information portdebarcelona.cat Surroundings Getting around town Visitors can enjoy a city with an enduring small- Montserrat (41 km) town charm and in no time at all find themselves in cosmopolitan downtown Barcelona, relaxing on miles Getting around town sustainably is the best option: TAXI of sandy beaches spread along Barcelona’s coastline or on foot, cycling or using public transport. Approximately twenty radio-taxi services operate in the discovering an imposing Catalan icon: the mountain of Costa Brava (117 km) metropolitan area of Barcelona, and there are two taxi Pyrenees (200 km) Montserrat. ON FOOT companies based in Sant Cugat: Downtown Sant Cugat is designed for pedestrians and Radio Taxi Sant Cugat The best option for getting around Sant Cugat is to Girona (100 km) offers culture, gastronomy and leisure activities with no Tel.: +(34) 935 894 422 / +(34) 936 741 111 forget about using a car. There’s a commuter train every vehicle traffic. [email protected] three minutes that drops you in the centre of Barcelona 12 near a multitude of attractive spots. CYCLING Excel Taxi Sant Cugat 13 It’s a practical city for cycling. A flat terrain, especially in Tel.: +(34) 935 83 82 01 / +(34) 935 83 82 02 Lleida (147 km) the centre, and over 30 kilometres of cycle lanes make it There are six taxi stops located next to the CAP (Medical easy to get around quickly. Centre) Sant Cugat (carrer de la Mina), FGC Sant Cugat station (carrer Andana), FGC Valldoreix station (carrer COMMUTER RAIL Església), AC Hotel (plaça Xavier Cugat), on carrer Cèsar The local commuter rail, Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Martinell and at the General Hospital of Catalonia. Catalunya (FGC), has seven stations in the municipality on the Barcelona – Vallès route (S1, S2, S5 and S55): La Floresta, Valldoreix, Sant Cugat, Volpelleres, Sant Joan, SANT CUGAT Mira-sol and Hospital General. It runs as smoothly as Barcelona any metro fgc.cat Tarragona (99 km) 17 km via the Vallvidrera Tunnels, 10 minutes BUS The bus routes extend throughout the city, and Sitges (50 km) Costa Daurada (90 km) Port of Barcelona timetables can be consulted online at santqbus. Barcelona 27 km, 30 minutes on santcugat.cat or downloaded via the StQbus app. Airport the motorway (El Prat), 26 km, 30 minutes on the motorway Discovering Sant Cugat Morning, noon and night, there’s always something going on in Sant Cugat. Dynamic, joyful and overflowing with optimism, the city’s the ideal place for doing things after the meeting. We’ve curated the best selection of cultural suggestions, outdoor activities, sport and 14 leisure, local festivities and traditions and 15 obviously shopping and gastronomy; taking the liberty of designing some ideas that might inspire you when designing your own itinerary. Royal Monastery of Sant Cugat Cal Gerrer House-Museum City routes Golf Collserola Natural Park Riding Mercantic Gastronomy Theatre-Auditorium Sant Cugat Shopping Sant Cugat Museums Movie theatres Maristany Art Centre Local Festivities Royal Monastery of Sant Cugat City Routes The monastic complex, founded in the 9th C, is one of the greatest examples of medieval art in Catalonia We suggest a walk through the history and architecture of Sant Cugat to discover the old city and and a symbol of the city. Just looking at it is, in itself, an enriching experience. medieval quarter and, at the same time, the Modernist and Novecentist buildings from the late 19th C to the early 20th C. The cloister is considered a jewel of Romanesque sculpture and one of the most important and well- conserved in southern Europe. It’s outstanding for the structure and decoration of its 144 capitols, each one of them unique. THE HISTORIC CENTRE SUGGESTIONS The church is a privileged location to observe a clear transition from Romanesque to Gothic. The possible origin of the city is the Roman fortress from 1 AD on which the Benedictine Save a morning for strolling around town SUGGESTIONS INFORMATION AND Monastery of Sant Cugat was erected in the 9th with the help of a tourist map or a guide.