Getaway to Garraf: From Charlie Rivel to the wineries

This is the Hotel Estela restaurant, also known as the Hotel de l'Art, and it shares its passion for culture and especially Catalan painters. In the cafeteria there are works by Tàpies, Miró and Dalí, while around the tables there are usually temporary exhibitions with pieces by Josep M. Subirachs. Selected Mediterranean cuisine with fresh quality products.  

Restaurant using local products located in Can Cabanyes, the very elegant birthplace of the poet Manel de Cabanyes. It serves local cuisine that, according to its owners, seeks to rediscover traditional flavours, together with an excellent range of Catalan wines.  

Although it is an ideal restaurant for big celebrations, you can also go to El Creuer any day for lunch. It is located in a beautiful setting, the Racó de Santa Llúcia, and has gorgeous gardens and a swimming pool. It specialises in seafood and local cuisine but also serves vegetarian dishes and grilled meat.  

Everything here smells like the sea. Outside, you feel like you can almost touch the blueness; on the table, you can enjoy the Mediterranean and seafood cuisine, with excellent paellas and delicious seafood starters. A good place for lunch or dinner after you have enjoyed the many attractions of a town such as Sitges.  

Beautiful restaurant in an old reformed house in the centre of Sant Pere de Ribes. You can enjoy a wide range of dishes, such as escargots 'a la llauna' or grilled meat, and, of course, toasts with a range of toppings. Quality Catalan and Mediterranean cuisine since 1992.

In the residential area of El Vinyet and very near the waves, the Best Western is a hotel with all the conveniences, a wide range of rooms, swimming pool, gardens, spacious lounges, meeting rooms, and a good restaurant in the tower adjoining the hotel, El Cau del Vinyet, with a menu based on local products. The four stars reflect the quality of the establishment.

If you’d like to stay near the seaside promenade in Stiges, only a few minutes from the town centre, you could opt for Hotel Calípolis, which offers spectacular views of the beach. It’s a four star establishment that was refurbished recently and offers the advantage of its proximity to both the beach and the bars and restaurants of the town. It has a its own bar and restaurant on the ground floor, which are usually quite lively. 

This new hotel is located in a quiet suburb of the town of Sant Pere de Ribes. It’s a very functional, though welcoming and elegant, hotel for both leisure and business travellers. It’s ideally located for exploring the coast and the inland areas of Garraf.

Right next to the sea in the port of Aiguadolç, we will find Hotel Estela Barcelona Sitges, an elegant four star establishment with an artistic leaning – as you walk along its halls and corridors you can admire original works by artists like Subirachs, Dalí, Tàpies, and Miró. Some of the rooms also feature artwork by other painters who have recreated their creative universes inside. If you like paintings and sculptures we recommend this unique hotel.

This four star hotel, located just next to Port d'Aiguadolç in Sitges, is synonymous with elegance and glamour. It’s one of the venues of the Sitges Fantasy Film Festival, which is held every October and brings Spanish and international actors and actresses to the hotel. It has an outdoor pool and a heated indoor pool, a sauna, gardens and terraces, as well as luxurious and spacious rooms.

Located in the centre of Sitges, the Romantic Museum is set in the Llopis family home, built in 1793 outside the Medieval walled town. For many years it was one of the noblest houses in the new town area of Sitges and was inhabited by various generations of Llopis, a Sitges family of maritime origins who ascended the social scale thanks to accumulating land and trading in wine and spirits. As well as having the opportunity to explore a wealthy 19th century family home, visitors here can see the curious collection of dolls belong to Barcelona writer and illustrator Lola Anglada.

This Romantic Museum is set in the old Papiol family home; this was an influential family that moved to Vilanova in the middle of the 17th century and whose wealth was acquired through buying properties and marriage. The house conserves the original structure, layout and decoration. Its exteriors are in line with the austere style of the time with a neoclassical façade and painted architectural motifs. The inside, in contrast, is remarkable for its fastidious elegance. The tour of the building takes in the family quarters the servants’ quarters and the garden.

Founded in 1884 by politician and writer Victor Balaguer i Cirera, the original nucleus of the Balaguer Library-Museum consists of the books and artworks that he gathered throughout his life, alongside the many donations received from prominent personalities. The museums’ art collection consists of over eight thousand pieces. In the permanent collection special attention is paid to the examples of art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the quality of which led to the museum becoming a section of the National Museum of Art of Catalonia.

Located right next to the train station, the Vilanova Railway Museum has one of the world’s largest collection of railway related items in the world, including more than sixty vehicles from all eras, countries and technologies, with 28 steam locomotives dating from the late nineteenth century, including the oldest in Spain and the last one that was in active service in the country . Also on exhibition are wagons, diesel and electric engines and other curious vehicles.

An old house belonging to indianos, set in the heart of the Garraf Natural Park,Palau Novella has become the site of Catalonia’s first Buddhist monastery. You can explore it on a guided tour that will introduce you to the religion’s art and sacred objects. The monastery also holds meditation workshops that are open to everybody. It is located in privileged surroundings that are also worth visiting.