Sitges and its Cau Ferrat (the home and atelier of the painter and writer Santiago Rusiñol, today a museum) were, a hundred years ago, a meeting point for intellectuals and artists, who turned the village into the spiritual capital of Catalan Art Nouveau.

Even today, the streets of Sitges show that memento in the architecture of a good number of Modernista buildings. On the other hand, inside Cau Ferrat and the Maricel Palace, we can find the most representative elements of that complete art –painting, music, decorative art or collecting. All of these elements are the summary and the expression of the ideas of the Modernista School, which prevailed at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century.