Of course, we already told you so. You can come to Sitges every weekend. You didn't really think that we'd be calming down here after Carnival, did you? In Sitges, we're into action and we're short on days ;)

Our next event: on Sunday, April 6th, the Barcelona-Sitges International Vintage Car Rally is arriving. It will start at Plaça Sant Jaume in Barcelona around 10:30 a.m. and the estimate is that this historic retinue on wheels will arrive to the streets of Sitges around 12:30 in the afternoon.

We also have more than enough reasons to come on this occasion: it's the oldest vintage car rally in Southern Europe, both in terms of the number of years it has been held (since 1959) and the participating vehicles (registered between 1928 and 1938).

You aren't really into cars? That's all right, this isn't a typical rally. This is a social and cultural event.

Do you know why the drivers and passengers are dressed in period costumes? Well, it's because when the first edition was held, it coincided with Sitges' Carnival. And if it's Carnival time, here, in Sitges, you wear a costume, no matter what. So, to join the party, the first participants decided to dress up to match their vehicles. And since then and to date, 67 editions... However, as Núria Carbonell, secretary of Foment de Sitges ("Sitges Promotion"), co-organizer of the Rally along with Turisme de Sitges, remarked, "the whole thing started to gather so much momentum that we finally had to hold it after Carnival, so they wouldn't overlap".  Like we said: in Sitges we're short on days.

Carbonell has the Rally built into her DNA and that's why she has been involved in organizing it for more 25 years. Her father, Eduard Carbonell, was one of the driving forces behind the idea, "which was born with the idea of being a winter festival that would push the tourist season forward in Sitges".  That's the thing about living in Sitges: you get restless by nature (or due to the environment or through contamination). The result is just that, a popular celebration where nearly 90 vehicles will be participating again this year, once more shaping one of the most spectacular and emblematic picture postcards of Sitges alongside La Fragata Beach.

We'll be waiting for you ;)