Human presence in the area dates to at least the Neolithic area and an Iberiansettlement from the 4th century. In the 1st century BC it included two separated villages, later absorbed by the Romans.
During the Middle Ages, a castle was built in Sitges, owned by the bishopric of Barcelona, which later ceded it to count Mir Geribert (1041). In the 12th century the town fell under the rule of the Sitges family. The latter held it until 1308, when Agnes of Sitges sold the town to Bernat de Fonollar, after whose death it went to the Pia Almoina, a charitable institution, to which it belonged until 1814.
In 1814 Facundo BacardÃ, founder of the international rum brand Bacardi, was born in Sitges before emigrating to Cuba where he set up his company.
Sitges economy was mostly based on the production of wine until the economic boom of the 1960s, after which it became a tourist resort
