A guide accompanies the route around the Maricel ensemble

The history, secrets and itineraries around the architectural ensemble of Maricel have been included in a new guide published by the Sitges Heritage Consortium on the occasion of the centenary of the building and the activities that have been programmed around it. The guide is entitled A walk through the Maricel by Charles Deering and Miquel Utriilo (1909-1921) and accompanies the guided tours that take place every Sunday for the whole ensenble as a complementary activity to the centenary exhibition, which hosts the Museum of Maricel until February 24th.

The guide is 64 pages and contains a hundred photographs, most of them from the Miquel Utrillo Archive, as well as of Deering Estate, all of them entitled and with the respective credits. The text of the guide, all documents, has been written by Vinyet Panyella, director of Museums of Sitges and curator of the Maricel Year. Three versions are published: in Catalan, Spanish and English, and is given free of charge to all participants in the guided tours that are held every Sunday morning by the Maricel group, including the exhibition, to find out how was the project designed for Miquel Utrillo commissioned by Charles Deering.

The guide carries out a chronological tour, which starts from the old San Juan Hospital, which in September 1909 was purchased by Charles Deering to carry out its Maricel project. A walk through the Maricel by Charles Deering and Miquel Utriilo (1909-1921 ) explains how Deering arrived to Sitges, and he met Rusiñol, Casas and Utrillo,  and in what way he charged the latter with the Maricel transformation project, and what were the stages of its construction.

The libretto travels through the different rooms of all the buildings of Maricel and contrasts the function they had at the beginning with the current one, as spaces integrated in the Maricel Museum, the Maricel Palace, the Historical Archive, the Casa Lola Anglada and the Santiago Rusiñol Library. The guide contains all kinds of details about the buildings, their decoration and their functions.

The the book ends the end of Maricel de Deering, in 1921, when the American industrialist left Sitges and took his art collection.

A walk through the Maricel by Charles Deering and Miquel Utriilo (1909-1921 ) has been published on the occasion of the Centenary of Maricel and is an advance of the Maricel Book , which will appear in the coming months and is also an edition included in the programming of activities, with the participation of Ignasi Domènech, Sebastià Sánchez Sauleda, Roland Sierra and Jennifer Titshammer, under the direction and coordination of Vinyet Panyella.