Best Western Subur Maritim

again in the old part ....

by nicoleken

very nice to walk there ..
Sitges has a great architecture !
Many of the houses are built at the beginning of the 20th century.
Sitges is very popular among the tourists. beautiful mosaiques and fountain

Walking on the Boulevard under the palm trees

by ptitetoile

The Boulevard for the pedestrian along the beach is really nice and allows you to enjoy the view on the sea and also on the nice waterfront houses all along. In the evening, it is also a great place for a romantic walk... or tango under the moon!!!!!

Ajuntament de Sitges

by MM212

Constructed in 1889, l'Ajuntament de Sitges is the city hall building. It was designed by the Catalan architect Salvador Vinyals Sabaté in a neo-Catalan Gothic style. The Ajuntament is located in Old Sitges, just behind the Church of Sant Bartomeu i Santa Tecla.

Sitges - nice beach town

by angidesign

"Sitges beachfront"

Well, we just passed through Sitges for a short stopover for a few minutes on our way from Tarragona to Barcelona and i liked this small, quiet (at least in November) villages with its wonderfull beaches... love to come there again in summer!

"Church at the sea promenade"

Surprisingly, the church is right at the coastline of sitges - and that is something very nice and something which i haven't seen before.

"Church"

Art Nouveau / Modernism in Sitges

by ptitetoile

"ART NOUVEAU IN CATALONIA"

I like Art nouveau style (as you can see on my pages on Brussels) and I knew that I would find a lot of Moderniste architecture (spanish version of Art Nouveau) in Barcelona...but I did not know that Sitges was also a very important center for Modernism too!!!! In fact, one of the famous modernist artist, Rusiñol, choose Sitges as residence town and settled in the houses called Cau Ferrat where he organised literary competitions during the Festes Modernistes (Art Nouveau festivals) between 1892 and 1899.

Rusiñol had regularly meetings from 1897 in the literary café "Els quatre gats" installed in a building of Puig i Cadafalch in the old Barcelona, an Art Nouveau café with a huge prestige in artistic circles. That meetings were also frequented by other artists as Picasso -his paintings of blue and rose period are considered Art Nouveau-, Miquel Utrillo, Mir, Pichot, and others.
The magazine "Pèl i ploma" published by Ramon Casas was the spokesman of the movement in Barcelona.
That collective attitude of artistic renewal and progress was the base of impulsion of one of most brilliant periods of Catalan art.

Bases of the Catalan Art Nouveau

The Art Nouveau in Catalonia (Modernisme) had a fantastic expansion in a country opened to all currents from Europe in order to affirm his differences with Spain and reinforce his politic nationalism, in a period leaded by "Renaixença" (the Renaissance or rebirth) after a long period of decline caused by its military defeat in 1714 and consequent loss of his national rights and institutions.

Architects as Gaudí, Domènech i Montaner, Puig i Cadafalch and others took the leadership of the Modernism.

Characteristics of the Modernism

In fact Art Nouveau represents all over the world and specially in Catalonia the liberty to create new shapes not previously accepted.
The Catalan Art Nouveau don't only reflexes in its architecture the ornamentation richness who is common in all the Art Nouveau, but also manifest an interest to maintain and renew the traditional building and decoration techniques, using old materials as brick and new materials (at that time) as iron and new ceramic techniques