Sarrià-Sant Gervasi
Sarrià-Sant Gervasi: hill towns, garden-city fabric and Collserola inside Barcelona's boundary.
Built from annexed hill municipalities (notably Sarrià later than the 1897 wave) and garden suburbs, this district holds some of the city's highest incomes and deepest green interfaces with Collserola. The district groups 6 neighbourhoods with a combined registered population of about 152,943 (padró 2026). The comparative table uses the same definitions and years for every barri. Internal inequalities — income, density, tourism, self-built or Eixample histories — are best read neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Each has its own page with sources.
Neighbourhood directory
| Neighbourhood | Population | Density | Income (section mean) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vallvidrera, el Tibidabo i les Planes | 4,867 | 4.3 | 34,775 |
| Sarrià | 24,937 | 81.8 | 41,589 |
| les Tres Torres | 16,341 | 207.4 | 49,258 |
| Sant Gervasi - la Bonanova | 26,801 | 120 | 43,217 |
| Sant Gervasi - Galvany | 49,202 | 294.8 | 44,003 |
| el Putxet i el Farró | 30,795 | 363.1 | 34,779 |
- Vallvidrera, el Tibidabo i les Planes — Three dispersed settlements turn Collserola into inhabited city: Vallvidrera looks over Barcelona from an old mountain village, Tibidabo mixes temple, amusement and telecommunications, and les Planes grows along the railway on slopes where forest is home, infrastructure and risk.
- Sarrià — Sarrià retains the gesture of a town inside Barcelona—main street, square, market, parish and former town hall—but its calm appearance is the product of a long negotiation among agriculture, craft, railway, summer residence, annexation, schools, expensive housing and an associational life that still makes its own centre.
- les Tres Torres — Les Tres Torres began when three houses gave a new name to the former Nena Cases estate; railway, garden villas, clinics and high-value apartment blocks then made a neighbourhood where privacy is highly visible and collective life must be found in the market, library, station and memories of what has gone.
- Sant Gervasi - la Bonanova — Sant Gervasi - la Bonanova is a hillside made from three superimposed cities: old Cassoles, the villa and summer-estate belt, and an institutional landscape of schools, convents, clinics and science facilities that multiplies the neighbourhood’s real population every morning.
- Sant Gervasi - Galvany — Sant Gervasi - Galvany is compact Sant Gervasi: a market, dense housing, retail, schools, clinics and nightlife, where high income does not remove dependence on everyday infrastructure sustained by stallholders and service workers.
- el Putxet i el Farró — El Putxet i el Farró are two neighbourhoods inside one administrative name: uphill, an urbanised hill of villas, apartment blocks and a panoramic park; downhill, squares, passages and small houses around Saragossa. Ronda del General Mitre is boundary, cut and connector.