Feast of Our Lady, the Virgin of Carmen – Mid July (14th – 16th)
- One of the oldest celebrations in the Sitges calendar
- Honor Fishermen the oldest of trades
- Promote local seafood
- Conference, the day of the Virgin of Carmen, by Ocean in 2012
(a group of NGOs working internationally to protect seabed and promote fishing) - In late summer, Sitges host the Posidonia Festival often from August 31 to September
- Festival of art, environment and sustainable development
(to protect a marine plant that is essential to life and protect ecosystems of the Mediterranean coasts from erosion)
Lady of Carmen – July 16th
- Patron saint, Virgin of Carmen, for sailors in Sitges
- 16th July is feast day with a mass
- Started in 18th century to commemorate 1251 legend
- Virgin Mary gave a Carmelite Scapular (religious cloth) to St. Simon which saved an English ship adrift amid a fierce storm
- As a celebration to ask protection from the dangers of the sea
- Involving a procession starting on land and onto the sea, via boats with one displaying the image of the Virgin of Carmen on the front
- From port Aiguadolçs along the Sitges bay to the west
- Every year a different fishing boat has the honour of carrying the image of the Virgin Mary
- At the height of the cemetery, Pomells throw flowers in memory of the sailors and devotees of the Virgin and to protect them from possible storms and shipwrecks
