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ing view of various art movements from the past fifty years. The renovated space in which
the collection is presented is simple but beautiful, with a vaulted, wood-beamed ceiling and
gleaming floors.
Museu Cau Ferrat
C/Fonollar • Closed until mid-2014 for renovations, then Tues-Sat 10am-2pm & 3.30-7pm, Sun 11am-3pm
(July-Sept Tues-Sun 11am-8pm) • €3.50, combined ticket for all museums €6.50 • 938 940 364,
museusdesitges.com
One of the old-town mansions contains the Museu Cau Ferrat , set in the former house and
workshopoftheartist andwriter SantiagoRusiñoliPrats (1861-1931),whomovedherein
1891. Sitges flourished as an important modernista centre under his patronage - Rusiñol or-
ganized five modernista festivals between 1892 and 1899 - and the house contains a mixture
of his own works and those by contemporaries, as well as various collected odds and ends,
like the decorative ironwork Rusiñol brought back in bulk from the Pyrenees.
Museu Maricel
C/Fonollar • Closed until mid-2014 for renovations, then Tues-Sat 10am-2pm & 3.30-7pm, Sun 11am-3pm
(July-Sept Tues-Sun 11am-8pm) • €3.50, combined ticket for all museums €6.50 • 938 940 364,
museusdesitges.com
Next door to the Cau Ferrat museum, the MuseuMaricel contains minor artworks, ceramics
andsculpture.InJulyandAugust(usuallytwoeveningsaweek)themainpartofthemansion
itself is open for guided tours, a short concert and drinks - ask at the tourist office for the
current schedule.
Museu Romàntic
C/de Sant Gaudenci 1 • Tues-Sat 10am-2pm & 3.30-7pm, Sun 11am-3pm (July-Sept Tues-Sun 11am-8pm) •
Tours hourly €3.50, combined ticket for all museums €6.50 • 938 942 969, museusdesitges.com
The Museu Romàntic , in the centre of town, occupies the stately rooms of Can Llopis, a
bourgeois home completed in 1793. Guided tours (which are the only way you will get ad-
mission; English sometimes spoken), reveal the lifestyle of a rich Sitges family in the eight-
eenth and nineteenth centuries, drawing your attention to the wealth of period furniture and
possessions, from divans to dolls.