Spend a summer in Barcelona, and you will be offered a dazzling array of art exhibitions of Picasso, Miro, and Dali, theater events, film festivals, and concerts. There is something of interest happening every single day in the city including the Barcelona Summer Festival, popularly known as the Grec Festival. It is the cultural highlight on the summer calendar and one of the most important arts festivals in the world. And, best of all, Barcelona is a thoroughly bi-lingual community.

Students studying in Barcelona through CIS are enrolled at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB), one of Spain’s top universities. Students stay at UAB’s beautiful Sarria campus, located in an affluent financial and educational district in north Barcelona and have the support of the CIS site director throughout their stay.