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La ruta de los Americanos, (The route of the Americans) Consists of a walk through the central streets of the town, and visit to the most precious architecture of the age of the Americans. The people of Sitges who towards the end of the XIII century and until the fist third of XX, emigrated to Cuba and Puerto Rico in the search for fortune. Upon returning to the town, they invested great amounts of their savings in the construction of buildings and mansions. The visit includes “cata de mavasía” (typical sweet wine of Sitges) in the gardens of the Romantic Museum.

In Sitges there are three important museums.

Museo Cau Ferrat:
Home/workshop of the painter and writer Santiago Rusiñol (1861-1931), and meeting place of artists of the Catalan Modernism. Contains works by Rusiñol, Ramon Casas, El Greco, Zuloaga and Picasso, amongst others. Also, stores important collections of forged iron, glass, ceramic and drawings.

In Sitges you can practise a multitude of sports. We can find from anything from bicycle rent to enjoy a ride alongside the sea with family to the diverse choice of riding schools, golf clubs and tennis. As a Mediterranean town overlooking the sea there are also a choice of ports and windsurfing schools.

Barcelona, the capital of Cataluña and Spain’s second city, during the XIX and XX centuries, was at the forefront of the Spanish state, in the arts, ideology, and industrialisation and its technological advances in general. Not forgetting its roman origins and medieval splendour.

The Penedes region is one of the leading areas in the elaboration and exportation of wines in the whole of Spain, internationally renowned for its variety and high quality. The area boasts 26.000 hectares of carefully cultivated land, made possible by the combination of ancestral knowledge and modern technology. Each year the miracle of the elaboration of wine has helped create a special culture to the area.

Located in the southeastern sector of the coastal range of Cataluña, this park occupies 10.000 hectares. The landscape is very original, unique and different. Made up of low reliefs, rounded peaks, deep valleys with craggy, steep, slopes and rocky faces. Its proximity to the coast, determines the typically Mediterranean climate.

The route of the Cister includes three historical and cultural jewels the only in Cataluña. The monasteries of “Santa Creus”, “Poblet” and “Vallbona de les Monges”, clear examples of the transition at the time from the roman architecture to gothic.

The vitality of the three Catalan abbeys is clear in the great buildings conserved today and situated between the most important of European Cisters.

Montserrat is the only one of its type thanks to, its natural setting, its religious character and for its artistic manifestations. This mountain, a spectacular mass of rock rounded by erosion, is sacred in Cataluña and in 1987 was declared a Natural Park.

In the Sanctuary you can admire the romantic carving of the virgin of Montserrat, known as “la Moreneta” for its dark colour, and in 1881 was proclaimed Patrona (patron saint) of Cataluña.

According to legend, the god Jupiter abandoned his wife, the mortal Tiria, when he fell in love with the city of Tarragona. History tells us that in the year 218 AC the Romans strategically established in the place that became the capital of the Hispania Citerior.