Cadaqués and Cap de Creus
Catalonia, Spain
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Cadaqués and Cap de Creus
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Cadaqués sits on a bay in the middle of the Cap de Creus peninsula with one bad road in, which is why it stayed a fishing village long enough to collect Picasso in the summer of 1910, then Miró, Duchamp and a good many others. Dalí spent a childhood summer here in 1916 with the Pichot family that he later said made his career, and kept a house at Port Lligat next door. Beyond the village the cape is 190 square kilometres of natural park, wind-scoured and almost treeless — and the easternmost point of Catalonia and so of mainland Spain and the Iberian peninsula.
Required Activities
1
of 5
Go out to the end of the cape, the easternmost point of mainland Spain and of the Iberian peninsula
2
of 5
Look at the twisted rock, then at reproductions of The Persistence of Memory and The Great Masturbator, both of which are this peninsula
3
of 5
Go into Dalí's house at Port Lligat, the bay next to the village, where he lived and worked for most of his life
4
of 5
Find the Café Melitón, where Marcel Duchamp played chess — he rated the local fishermen as serious opponents
5
of 5
Work out why the artists came here: one difficult road in, and a village that stayed a fishing village long after the rest of the coast stopped being one
Go out to the end of the cape, the easternmost point of mainland Spain and of the Iberian peninsula
Look at the twisted rock, then at reproductions of The Persistence of Memory and The Great Masturbator, both of which are this peninsula
Go into Dalí's house at Port Lligat, the bay next to the village, where he lived and worked for most of his life
Find the Café Melitón, where Marcel Duchamp played chess — he rated the local fishermen as serious opponents
Work out why the artists came here: one difficult road in, and a village that stayed a fishing village long after the rest of the coast stopped being one
Before you go
The road in is narrow with many bends and village parking is very limited — leave larger vehicles outside. The Tramuntana wind here is ferocious.
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Challenge XP
300 XP
Spain country bonus
+100 XP
Potential total
400 XP
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