Sitges

Sitges , city Spanish located at 40 kilometers in the south of Barcelona, was wedged a long time. Encircled by the hills and the sea, it is accessible today by highway from Barcelona but, very a long time, only a small road of seaside and the road crossing the mountains by Sant Pere of Ribes made it possible to join it. Cosmopolitan, open and merry, the city is appreciated more and more.

The city changes gradually with the arrival of one of the founders of the company John Deere. In love with this bay, it imported various areas of Spain of the elements of castles and other monuments, creating a district with the incomparable charm behind the church, with the site of a village of fishermen. These buildings will be useful to him partly of palate and for another part of dispensary and hospital. This district kept all its seal; it shelters museums henceforth and lodges cultural concerts and other events. Initially wine-producing area, the epidemic of Phylloxéra at the 19th century pushes the inhabitants to seek new sources of revenue. Some will seek them in the islands of the Atlantic and in particular with Cuba. Driven out during the release of the island, “los Cubanos” as they will be called then, returns in their area of origin rich person of their new fortune. Some left their trace on the new continent as this Catalan who created the Rhum Bacardi with Santiago of Cuba. You can find besides many references to this past in the streets of the old city. Several places bear evocative names: Islas of Cuba , Matanzas , Pinar del Rio … but also of the azulleros (ceramic) representing the island of Cuba. Los cubanos then will be made build a whole of residences which now make the charm of this seaside resort. These residences take again the cuban architectural elements of the time (multicoloured stained glasses, shutters, colonial style).

At the same time, Sitges became a major artistic center under the influence of the luminists, the first painters having profited from the technical evolutions making it possible to paint in outside. The fabulous orange light bathing the city the evening their provided a topic of predilection. Most influential of these painters was undoubtedly Santiago Rusinol which, in 1891, discovered a new manner of making live its Article the School of Sitges at that time gathered Joan Roig, Arcadi Mas I Fondevila like Joaquim de Miro and Joam Batlle Arnell. Since 1892, under the impulse of Rusinol, Sitges accommodates what it will be agreed to call the first modernistic festival within the town hall. This gathering accommodated dice its 2nd edition of the Belgian artists and continued thereafter to the fifth and last edition. In the Years 1960, with the opening of Spain in tourism, Sitges will become the continental relationship of Ibiza. The installation of the Pasha and the development of a community Hippie will contribute to the opening of the city on Europe. With the end of the Francoism and the accession of Spain in Europe, the city will acquire its noble letters as a Seaside resort, but in fact the Olympic Games will bring total opening-up to him. Up to that point especially known from the Inhabitants of Barcelona and some well informed Europeans, the city will be made known beyond the borders. Become meanwhile capital gay, often compared with the San Francisco of the Mediterranean, the city lodges more than 100.000 inhabitants for the summer period. The open-minded makes a meeting place of it where cross intellectual, hippies on the return and artists various. Because the city became cosmopolitan. To the rich person inhabitants of Barcelona families come to be added the gays of all Europe, some congressmen (a palate of the congresses was built in the Nineties) and much of tourists. With those which crowd frightens, the city finds any calm sound with the autumn and spring. She wants to be accessible and calm then, taking again life the weekend with the arrival of the Inhabitants of Barcelona. Everyone crosses all the day on the way of the beach and, the fallen night, between restaurants, bars and nightclubs around the vital organs which is the “street of the Sin”. It is Sitges of the postcards of all the colors, very released, insomniac and cosmopolitan. Henceforth, the city wants to be a cultural capital. The International festival of film of Catalonia, devoted to science fiction films, becomes each year impossible to circumvent and comes to supplement religious holidays and laymen throughout the year: “Fiesta Dios”, carnival, rally of old cars and festival of the flowers mark out the year attracting a varied public.

Demography

External bonds

Web site of the town hall
Trade union of tourism
Webcam Sitges
Webcam Mediterráneo Sitges - Hotel & Apartments
Guide of Sitges
Hotel Subur 3* Sitges
Best Western Hotel Subur Maritim 4* Sitges
Hotel 4* Dolce Sitges
Guia de Sitges - the farmhouse supplemented

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