Cadaqués

Port of Cadaqués

Cadaqués is a town in the Alt Empordà comarca, in Girona province, Catalonia, Spain. It is on a bay near the Cap de Creus peninsula, on the Costa Brava of the Mediterranean Sea. It is only a 2 1/2 hour drive from Barcelona, therefore it is very accessible and not only attracts tourists, but people who want a second house to have on the weekends and summers. In 2002 it had a population of 2612 people.

Artist Salvador Dalí often visited here in his childhood, and later kept a home here. Other notable artists, including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Marcel Duchamp, Antoni Pitxot, Henri-François Rey, Melina Mercouri and Maurice Boitel also spent time here.

In a time it remained undisturbed, its interesting submarine flora was studied during several years by phycologist Françoise Ardré.

Long a sleepy fishing village, Cadaqués is now a tourism destination. Although it has about 2,000 permanent residents, sometimes up to 10 times that number of visitors stay there.

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The Cadaqués shoreline

The adjacent village of Port Lligat, with Dali's home at right

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