The Sitges Carnival boasts a centuries-old history, but its current configuration is due to a key event that took place on Carnival Sunday in 1976.
After decades of dictatorship and prohibitions, a group of members and friends of the organization El Retiro proposed celebrating the popular festival in the public space again, an idea they carried out without official permission.
This crazy initiative, carried out without official permission, proved to be a resounding success, filling the streets of Sitges and demonstrating the popular will to recover the tradition.
The success of that gathering, which took place on February 29, 1976, was documented by numerous images and testimonies, establishing a before and after in the understanding of the Carnival in the town of Sitges.
