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| CULTURE AND
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Maricel Palace
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Sitges
Church (click to enlarge) |
The Palace represents one of the most emblematic
buildings in town. It was built in 1910
by the North American millionaire Charles
Deering,
who wanted the Palace to assemble his art collection. The Palace
keeps its majestic style from the beginning
of the XX. Inside, the Golden
and Blue Halls (Salons d’Or I Blau),
the Cloister and the terraces clearly
deserve to be highlighted. At present,
the Palace
is used for
conferences, congresses, concerts and exhibitions. However, at summer
time, guided visits are organized.
Cau Ferrat Museum
The museum Cau Ferrat constitutes a
reference point in Catalan Modernism.
The Catalan
artist Santiago Rusiñol bought
this old fishermen’s
house in 1894 and turn it into a meeting point of artists and intellectuals.
Afterwards, it became a museum including works of El Greco, Picasso,
Miró,
Rusiñol, Zuloaga or Utrillo, and a magnificent Wrought Iron
Collection.
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Sitges
Palace (click to enlarge) |
Maricel Museum
The museum Maricel houses three art collections:
the Sailor Collection of Emerencià Roig Raventós, the Modern Art Collection (with
works of Rusiñol, Mas Fondevila, Felip Masó, Joaquim Sunyer,
atc.) and the Art Collection of Dr. Pérez Rosales, with Romanesque
and Gothic paintings, and Renaissance works and sculptures of Catalan
artists from the beginning of the XX century, among others. One of
the exhibition
halls has a mural of the artist Sert and sculptures of Llimona in
front of a window overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.
Romantic Museum
The museum offers the possibility to travel round the life of a typical
Sitgetan family from the end of the XIX century. This Romanesque house,
situated in the street Sant Gaudenci, houses an interesting collection
of antique dolls, donated by the Catalan writer and illustrator Lola
Anglada.
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| NIGHT LIFE |
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Sitges
Center (click to enlarge) |
Sitges offers an incredible variety of leisure
activities and a very exciting night life around
its many bars, pubs and discotheques (the popular
street Carrer del Pecat is a very good example).
If you want to see a full list of them, click
here
Sitges has also a large gay and lesbian community
so it has bars, pubs,
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| SITGES' BEACHES |
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Sitges
Beach (click to enlarge) |
Sitges has been blessed with 17 fine and bright
sandy beaches along its 4 kilometres coast. During
the 60’s, Sitges started to be known as the
Golden Beach because of the extraordinary enchantment
of its beaches, in a period characterized by exclusive
tourism, inheritor of the so popular aristocratic
bathes in sea water at the beginning of XX century.
Since then, Sitges has made an effort to improve
the quality of the beaches, placing particular
emphasis to the sand and water, apart from services
and accessibility to disabled people.
Here it is the full list of Sitges' beaches:
- Les Botigues
- Cala Ginesta
- Garraf
- Cala Morisca (naturist)
- Vallcarca
- Aiguadolç
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- Balmins
- Sant Sebastià
- La Fragata
- La Ribera
- La Bassa Rodona
- L'Home Mort (gay)
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- L'Estanyol
- La Riera Xica
- La Barra
- Terramar
- Les Anquines
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