Sitges opens up its beach season today, Monday, which will run until 12 October. Restaurant services, loungers and deck chairs, awnings, nautical sports and other services will gradually be rolled out between now and the end of June, when they should be 100% available. Last week saw the first beach bars and sailing schools start setting up, the idea being to start operating over the next few days and be ready for Easter.

All services are included in the Beach Uses and Services Plan, authorised by the Government of Catalonia’s Coastal Service. The document sets out the organisation and distribution of facilities, uses and services for the beach season, to make rational use of these spaces, conserving and maintaining natural resources and offering services so that the public can use them, and fostering quality tourism.

As from tomorrow, 1 April, the municipal beach team will have nine workers. These workers will set up services such as walkways and clean points, and will also be tasked with keeping lookout points in good condition, repairing furniture such as benches and litter bins, and cleaning sand by removing anything that the beach cleaning machine is not able to get out. Another ten workers will gradually be added to boost cleaning at the beaches in the high season.

As for the rescue and life-saving service, this will be in operation for ten days over Easter, from 12 to 21 April. The service will be operating from 12 noon to 6 pm at the beaches of Ribera, Fragata, Bassa Rodona, Sant Sebastià, Garraf and Les Botigues, which have the most visitors, and at the rest of the beaches from June. The service closed out the 2024 season having carried out 53,520 preventive actions in all at beaches in Sitges.

The coastal cleaning service, with a vessel that collects floating waste from the sea in front of the Sitges coast, is also set to come into service in June and operate until mid-September. The boat collected 758 kilogrammes of floating solid waste last summer.

With all these actions, Sitges is gearing up to offer a safe, clean and well-equipped beach season for residents and visitors alike.