Tour inspired by Charles Deering

Friday October 11, 2024
6 p.m.
Maricel Museum and Maricel Palace
Free activity. Limited capacity

Itinerary through the Maricel complex, both the Palace and the Museum, to highlight and add value to the figure of the American philanthropist Charles Deering, promoter of this building, inaugurated in 1918 and whose space had previously hosted the Saint John's Hospital With this event, Museus de Sitges joins the commemoration of the 700th anniversary of the foundation of the Hospital de Sant Joan Baptista.

During the event, a reproduction of the plaque commemorating the appointment of Charles Deering as an Adoptive Son of Sitges (1916), by the sculptor Josep Llimona, will be unveiled. The original plaque is on the Stone House, the house Deering built in Miami.

This event is included in the program of the European Heritage Days, which in Catalonia are celebrated by more than a hundred municipalities and whose aim is to spread and promote the richness and diversity of cultural heritage. It is an initiative of the Council of Europe and the European Commission and promoted in Catalonia by the Catalan Heritage Agency.