The Hotel Melia Sitges hosted two of the most important events of the season in Sitges on its premises.

On the one hand, it was the venue for the Women’s World Chess Championship, where sixty players from 12 international delegations competed from September 26^th to October 3^rd.

This was followed by the Sitges, 54th International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, which took place from October 7^th to 17^th, and where 103,038 spectators reaffirmed people’s enthusiasm for fantastic genre, the experience of going to see movies in theaters and the industry’s excellent health. This figure far exceeds last year’s attendance, with 59,315 spectators, and is on track to reach the pre-pandemic numbers of 2019, a year when there was a total of 130,206 moviegoers.

As has been customary in recent years, Meliá Sitges becomes the Festival’s nerve center, hosting between five and seven screenings a day during the Festival’s dates as well as the Festival’s opening and closing night ceremonies, which take place in its spectacular auditorium with a seating capacity for up to 1,384 people.

The Festival has already announced the dates for its 55^th edition, which will take place from the 6^th to the 16^th of October 2022 and will celebrate the 40^th anniversary of great milestones in genre films including Tron (Steven Lisberger, 1982), The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982) and Conan the Barbarian (John Milius, 1982).