Tourism In Cadaques (Costa Brava): Salvador Dalí Steal

Cadaques: its history and culture

Cadaqués is the village east of the Iberian Peninsula. The township occupies most of the east coast of Cape Creus massif. Isolated by the mountain of Puig Puig Paní Bufadors and the rest of the Empordà, the fishing village of Cadaqués lived facing the sea and almost cut off by land, the rest of the Empordà, until the late nineteenth century. This has made this village has a special charm with its white houses, the church that stands out from all the roofs and port, and unrivaled beaches. The origin of the name is "Quers Cap" or "Cap d'Aques" which translates as "Cape of rocks."

Cadaqués has traditionally been a meeting place for intellectuals, the subject and inspiration for many painters and summer resort of several families of Barcelona, ​​Figueras, Gerona and other cities near Cadaqués for many years, from 1905. Since 1958, Marcel Duchamp, the artist probably more influential of the twentieth century, set his summer home in Cadaques. Similarly, the family of surrealist painter Salvador Dalí in the village had a summer residence, where he had been visiting his student days Federico Garcia Lorca. Dalí returned from New York in 1948 and settled in Port Lligat, one of the coves of the term. Cadaqués also attracted such notable celebrities as Eugenio d'Ors, who wrote of his summer stays in the village, Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró Durancamps Rafael. Cadaqués has also attracted other young painters Antoni Pitxot, Gustavo Carbó Berthold and Maurice Boitel.

But undoubtedly, the painter who has been more linked to this beautiful town has been Salvado Dali, which you can visit your home, also museum, located in the town. The following link provides more detailed information about the museum: Museo Dalí. To get closer to this town alive and surrounded cultral natural beauty do not hesitate to rent an apartment on the Costa Brava.

The park of Cabo de Creus includes the municipalities of El Port de la Selva, La Selva de Mar, Llançà, Cadaqués, Palau-saverdera, Pau, Roses and Vilajuïga. Form an extremely rugged shoreline, deep water, with plenty of islands, towering cliffs, stark rocky shoals by erosion and winds, meadows and forests in the interior and hidden coves of transparent waters, often accessible only by sea . As the easternmost point of the Iberian Peninsula, it is clear the flow of migratory birds. This place is subject to wave action, caused primarily by the north wind (the name given to a cold wind blows from the north and northwest) and winds.

The Cap de Creus

In the Cape there are remains of settlements and the prehistoric period, the area is dotted with many remains of dolmen. In antiquity, the Rhodians founded Rosas, near the isthmus. Further north, now fully Cap de Creus, Cadaques is, and further north is at the end of the cape, Puerto de la Selva. It was during the medieval period when it was founded the Monastery of Sant Pere de Rodes. Well into the twentieth century created the Natural Park of Cap de Creus, while in the early twenty-first century is declared SPAMI (Specially Protected Area of ​​Mediterranean Importance).

It is worth highlighting the importance of some rocks associated with animal shapes, which, over time, have become mythic, it is the case of Tudela eagle and the lion of Gros Cap, or the rock Culleré Island, opposite the cove of the same name, which apparently inspired Salvador Dalí in his book The Great Masturbator.