San Cugat del Valles, Spain Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

SANT CUGAT DEL VALLÈS is the closest of the towns to Barcelona, and these days little more than a rich suburb of the city. It's easily reached by FGC train from Plaça de Catalunya in around twenty minutes. Here, the Benedictine Reial Monestir was founded as far back as the ninth century, though most of the surviving buildings date from three or four hundred years later. Finest of them is a beautiful twelfth-century Romanesque cloister (June–Sept Tues–Sat 10am–1pm & 3.30–5.30pm; Oct–May Tues–Sat 10am–1pm; €1.80) with noteworthy capital … more »