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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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Penedès News – Summary December 2011

Monday, January 2nd, 2012

This is a selection of local Penedès news from the month of December, 2011. Click on each headline to read the full article, usually in Catalan or Spanish.

Gran Penedès

Thanks to the now opened new C15 (Eix Diagonal) the travel time from Vilanova…

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Penedès News in a different format

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

Penedès News has been one of the main pillars in the editorial line of this blog for the last few months and the time has come to evaluate the results. By now, I consider that I have been running project long enough to make conclusions and decide on …

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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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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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‘Jove de Sitges’ become ‘colla de 8′ and ‘Verds’ crown ’5de9′

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

The most traditional day of human towers this weekend was Santa Úrsula in Valls, but the one organized in Sitges, on October 22, was not far behind in terms of spectacular constructions.

One day before Vella completed it, Castellers de Vilafranca b…

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Remodeling of Sitges’ museums will exceed budget

Friday, October 21st, 2011

The remodeling of the Maricel, Can Rocamora and Cau Ferrat museums of Sitges (Garraf) –  approved by the earlier local PSC government - met with severe protests from many inhabitants of the town. For that reason, the works were partially hal…

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