Sitges
Ingredients for the dish:
(for four people) |
Ingredients for the sauce:
(for four people) |
| CURLY ENDIVES |
2 PIECES |
| ANCHOVIES |
12 PIECES |
| SALTY TUNA |
100 GRAMS |
| SALTY RIPPED COD |
100 GRAMS |
| ARBEQUINE OLIVES |
100 GRAMS |
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TOASTED ALMONDS
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100 GRAMS |
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TOASTED HAZELNUTS
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60 GRAMS |
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ANCHOVIES
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2 PIECES |
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GARLIC CLOVES
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2 PIECES
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SCALDED NYORES
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4 PIECES
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CHILLI (OPTIONAL)
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1/2 PIECE |
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FRIED OR TOASTED BREAD
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2 OR 3 SLICES |
| VINEGAR |
| OLIVE OIL |
| SALT |
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Preparation
In a mortar carve the following ingredients: the almonds, the hazelnuts, the anchovies from which salt has been removed, the garlic cloves, the nyores pulp, the chilli –if you wish–, the salt, the fried bread slices (you can soak them in vinegar or put the vinegar separately), vinegar and salt. Mix all these up with olive oil – keep tossing until you get an homogeneous sauce!
Wash an soak the curly endives in water. Take the salt off the anchovies, the salty tuna and the cod – rip the last two out – and mix them to the curly endive in a bowl. Add the olives and finally the sauce.
Mix it up well, so all the ingredients are impregnated with sauce and serve trying to build up some sort of curly endive castle (château).
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Gastronomy
The restaurants in Sitges have developed a creative, high quality cuisine in which fish takes pride of place. We must pick out for special mention the fish soups, the fish stews, or suquets, and several rice dishes including recently revived traditional recipes such as arròs a la sitgetana, angler fish all cremat and yellow gurnard suquet, that are perfect partners to go with xató de Sitges.
During the Xató Route season in Sitges a special xató set menu is available including a starter of xató de Sitges, a main course consisting of each restaurant’s particular speciality, sweets of the house and a glass of Malvasía. With each set menu you will be given a 50% discount voucher on tickets to the museums in the town.
Celebrations and activities
| NOVEMBER 2006 |
• Guided tours around town and Parc del Garraf, all
year round
• Bicycle Festival
• From 9th Nov. to 24th May. Rusiñol Year lectures
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| DESEMBER 2006 |
• Nativity scenes exhibition
• Christmas children park
• 3rd. Theatre festival
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| JANUARY 2007 |
• 5th. Epiphany Parade
• Nativity scenes exhibition
• 14th. XXIV Sitges’ Half Marathon
• 26th, 27th and 28th. Santiago Rusiñol Symposium, the
archetype of modern artist.
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| FEBRUARY 2007 |
• From 15th to 21st February. Carnival. Parades on 18th and 20th
February
• From 23rd to 25th. Antiques Fair
• 23rd. Pinso de l’Arca de Noè, Dinner at Centre de Disseny, on the
occasion of the 80th anniversary of its creation.
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| MARCH 2007 |
• 18th. XLVIII Antique Car Rally Barcelona-Sitges
• 3rd, 4th, 10th and 11th. XIV Sitges’ Art Fair
• Spain’s Enduro Championship
• 23rd, 24th and 25th. Patchwork Fair
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| APRIL 2007 |
• 23rd. Sant Jordi, The Book and the Rose Festival
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How to get there by train: Line 2 • On the motorway: C-32, exits 30 and 31 / AP-7, exit 29
The art of living
Cau Ferrat Museum
House and Studio of the painter and writer Santiago Russiñol (1861-1931), and meeting point for artists belonging to the Catalan Modernism movement. There are works from Rusiñol, Ramon Casas, El Greco, Zuloaga, Picasso, and others. Iron, ceramics and paintings collections.
Carrer Fonollar, s/n. Tel: 93 894 03 64
Maricel Museum
Romanesque and Gothic collections, Catalan sculptures from the latest 19th century by Joan Rebull and Josep Llimona, and mural painting by J.M. Sert can be found there. Also the Modern Art Gallery and the Emerencià Roig sea collection.
Carrer Fonollar, s/n. Tel: 93 894 03 64
Romantic Museum
19th Century house owned by a Catalan family. Collection of diorams which represent the social and folk life from the last century. Also the collection of antique dolls from Lola Anglada – one of the best ones in Europe - is exhibited there.
Carrer Sant Gaudenci, 1. Tel: 93 894 29 69
m.sitges@diba.es
OPENING HOURS
From 1rst October to 12th June
Tuesday to Saturday: to 9:30 a.m to 2 p.m. and from 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Sunday: to 10 a.m. to 15 p.m
From 15th June to 30th September
Tuesday to Saturday: to 9:30 a.m to 2 p.m. and from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Sunday: to 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Monday closed
Only guided visities and every full hours
Santiago Rusiñol Route
The Spirit of Modernism
La Fragata (Paseo de la Ribera)
Tel. 93 894 50 04 / 619 793 199
OPENING HOURS
First and third Sunday in the month
Price: 8 euros (no booking required).
Tourist Information Office
