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Penedès News Summary – February 2012

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

Gran Penedès

Generalitat introduces the so called VAO3+ discount for highly occupied vehicles on the payroad C-32, connecting Baix Penedès and Garraf with the metropolitan area of Barcelona. Read more in Catalan

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Penedès News – Summary January 2012

Thursday, February 9th, 2012

This is a selection of local Penedès news from the month of January, 2012.

Gran Penedès

The new motorway C15 is used by 16.000 vehicles per day between Vilanova i la Geltrú (Garraf) and Vilafranca del Penedès (Alt Penedès), and by 10.500 …

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Vilanova’s ‘Fira de Novembre’ boosts local business

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011

The sunny weather during the weekend certainly helped a bit, but the new location and format of the traditional November trade fair in Vilanova i la Geltrú (Garraf) – this year held November 11-13 – has proved to be highly attractive. In spi…

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‘Minyons de l’Arboç’ and ‘Jove de Vilafranca’ end the season with nice human towers

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

The Diada de la Colla which Bordegassos de Vilanova organised on November 13, did not become the success the team had hoped for, but the two guest teams partly compensated for that and offered the spectators in plaça de les Cols of Vilanova i la Ge…

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ADIF puts up safety fence in Botigues de Sitges

Sunday, November 13th, 2011

ADIF – the Spanish authority responisble for railway infrastructure – has just started to put up a 2,2m high safety fence along the tracks from the train station Platja de Castelldefels to Port Ginesta, Botigues de Sitges (Garraf). The work is expecte…

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Dolce Sitges wins Condé Nast Johansens Award for best MICE hotel for large groups

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

I have already informed you that Dolce Sitges Hotel had been nominated in the category for Excellence in MICE (meeting, incentives, conferences and exhibitions/events) among establishments with more than 100 rooms in the 2012 Condé Nast Johansens Awa…

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Alt Penedès and Garraf now officially ‘Costa de Barcelona’

Saturday, November 5th, 2011

Four comarques to the north east and south west of Barcelona are now officially united under the tourism brand Costa de Barcelona (the Coast of Barcelona) – a measure intended to streamline and reinforce the marketing activities of these destinatio…

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Museums of Sitges will be restored, not remodelled

Monday, October 31st, 2011

What started as a partial halt to the refurbishing of the museums Cau Ferrat and Palau Maricel in Sitges (Garraf), is now officially a change of plans. The details are still to be worked out, but the CiU-lead municipal government has announced that th…

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‘Dolce Sitges Hotel’ nominated for ‘Condé Nast Johansens Award’ 2012

Friday, October 28th, 2011

Dolce Sites Hotel in Sitges (Garraf) is the only hotel from continental Europe nominated in the category for Excellence in MICE (meeting, incentives, conferences and exhibitions/events) among establishments with more than 100 rooms in the 2012 Condé …

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Sitges Film Festival 2011 – Awards and Figures

Thursday, October 27th, 2011

Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival – in 2011 held during the ten days October 6-16 – was a great success for the organizers as well as for local business. Some 65.000 tickets were sold, an increase with 8% versus 2010 and 150.000 people visi…

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