They were newlyweds. He had just finished his engineering studies and she was beginning to articulate her first words in Spanish. It was the Spain of the last years of Franco's regime, a Spain very different from the world around them.

He used to teach classes for engineers, but soon decided to change his professional orientation. He was not satisfied with those masterly teaching sessions, where rhetorical filigree on the blackboard and impersonality in the teacher-student relationship predominated. The couple decided to embark on a new adventure...

Full of enthusiasm, they begin to leaf through the pages of all kinds of publications. They underline, cut out, call on the phone, make appointments with the owners, but all the offers are beyond their financial means.

Several weeks passed until they found a place. On the corner of Convenio-Florida, the Colegio Zürich was born. Under precarious conditions, the couple gave classes to small groups of students. The demand is very low. They do not lose heart and continue to fight, day after day, week after week. After much effort, they want to realize what had been their dream for a long time: to have a building with more facilities. A few years passed until they left the premises located in the suburbs of Barcelona to move to Ifni Street, 2. The school begins to have a more defined internal structure and the number of students grows progressively. The couple's concerns had not yet been satisfied: there was a lack of space.