Santiago Rusiñol explains how he fell in love with Sitges

The Book of Sitges by Ramon Planes picks up the words of Santiago Rusiñol that explain how and why he fell in love with Sitges. A 1892 text that we find fragmented in the sculpture plate that represents the two artists located in the Paseo de la Ribera de Sitges and that we leave here completely.

"Well, I, my friends, was walking around the world, following land, jumping streams and ravines, when one day I saw a land where it was sunnier than in other places, where the sky was more blue, the blue sea also , the houses were white and snowless, and everything was green and blooming, and I made a stop. I wanted to see how pretty it was from afar, I wanted to follow that beach where the foam always goes and comes bending eternally, and feeling the The voice of that sea that speaks with a wave-wave, saying things that come from the inside, and even more enter into whoever wants to hear them.

And I did not have enough to see what was seen from the outside. I wanted to enter these patios full of light, where the shadow never enters, and accommodate those white and blue rhinoceros, in each of them I found a friend who received me smiling, which extended my hand, and pressed it with appreciation , and the nobility of his heart was painted on his face. Then I felt bound by the ties that did not come looking. I came looking for landscapes and I was affected. I came to see the sea, and I found a sea of honest, lively, and serious people from within. It came, like the butterflies in the light, and I fell into the fire of friendship.

But what I will not say in my pictures will I say, and I will say so loudly, so that everybody can hear me, and I will say it with my chest full of enthusiasm: that in France they may have many millions, but they will never be able to buy a land like this one, where the wine is malvedry, the coast is gold, the sky is clear, the women fire, and all immersed in an atmosphere of life and friendship. "