Sitges Tourism

Centro de Interpretación de la Malvasia de Sitges

The winery that has preserved the legacy

 

 

The Malvasia de Sitges Interpretation Centre (CIM), located in the former Corral de la Vila, an eighteenth-century livestock building, is a key space for understanding the preserving the history of a unique wine: Malvasia de Sitges. For decades, this variety, which is unique to Sitges, was crafted into wine in the winery of the Hospital Sant Joan Baptista.

 

With the arrival of phylloxera and the rise of champagne in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Malvasia de Sitges started to decline. Forecasting its disappearance, the Sitges-born diplomat Manuel Llopis i de Casades (1885-1935) decided to preserve this heritage. Before dying, he bequeathed the family vineyard in Aiguadolç and the Malvasia winemaking business to the Hospital Sant Joan Baptista.

 

Today, you can enjoy a unique wine tourism experience at the CIM: choose from the different guided tours, learn about the role Malvasia has played in the history and identity of Sitges, visit an exceptional urban winery and savour different kinds of Malvasia wines from both the Hospital winery and other Catalan and international wineries at the La Malvaseria bar.

 

Learn how Malvasia de Sitges is much more than a sweet wine: it's living culture, tradition and landscape.

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