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The Museu Romàntic is located in the former Casa Llopis, built in 1793 outside the walls of the medieval town. For many years it was one of the most impressive stately homes in Sitges's new district. It was the home of several generations of the Llopis family, local people of seafaring origin who had
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The first-floor gallery and the garden are the most attractive and evocative parts of the house. In the gallery can be seen two walls decorated with children's scenes and, on the paving, a "Bis Bis" from the
Napoleonic era, a game consisting of forty-nine polychrome tiles, with which the Llopis
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The sobriety of the decoration on the outside of the building contrasts with its colourful interior, which takes the visitors back in time to plunge into the everyday atmosphere of a well-to-do nineteenth-century family. In the different rooms on the main floor (the music room, the ballroom, the
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Casa Llopis reached its greatest splendour during the second third of the nineteenth century, when the owner of the house was
Bernardí Llopis i Pujol (1814-1891), one of the most influential and popular figures in nineteenth-century Sitges. At that time, the local post office was located on the
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is the owner of the brand, and the vineyards bequeathed by the last heir of Casa Llopis, on condition that the institution should preserve the cultivation and the quality of Sitges
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The second floor of the Museum Romàntic, which used to be the staff quarters, has since the 1970s housed the curious collection of dolls and toys belonging to the writer and illustrator
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ground floor of the mansion, as we can see from the letter box in the form of a lion with its mouth open next to the front door.
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dining room, the bedrooms) are a succession of items of furniture of different styles, mural paintings,
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climbed the social ladder thanks to the accumulation of land and the trade in wines and liquors.
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