Cadaqués

Cadaqués (Catalan: [kəðəˈkes]; Spanish: [kaðaˈkes] ⓘ) is a town in the Alt Empordà comarca, in the province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain.

In 2018, Cadaqués had an official population of 2,752, but up to ten times as many people can live in the town during the peak of the summer tourism season.

Fren was the first modern artist to live in Cadaqués and gave the town many of his works and a marble top table on which he sketched many of its turn-of-the-century fishermen.

Salvador Dalí often visited Cadaqués in his childhood, and later kept a home in Port Lligat, a small village on a bay next to the town.

Other notable artists, including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Marcel Duchamp, Richard Hamilton, Albert Ràfols-Casamada, Antoni Pitxot, Henri-François Rey, Melina Mercouri and Maurice Boitel also spent time here.

The interesting submarine life of this sleepy fishing village was studied for several years by phycologist Françoise Ardré, long before Cadaqués was discovered and transformed into a tourism destination.

In the early 20th century[citation needed] a large number of inhabitants of Cadaqués travelled or emigrated to Cuba (the figure has been estimated as one third of a village of approximately 1200 people).

Owing to Cadaqués's proximity to the French border and its isolation by land, the village had a tradition of running contraband.

Examples include: The GR 92 long distance footpath, which roughly follows the length of the Mediterranean coast of Spain, has a staging point at Cadaqués.

White blocks of pegmatite mark where molten rock was squeezed through the older metamorphics at the end of the orogeny or mountain building.

Cadaqués' Blue House ( Casa Blava ) built in 1915.
Cadaqués' Cafe de La Habana video
The adjacent village of Port Lligat, with Dalí's home at right
Shoreline of Cadaqués at night
Cadaqués typical back street ( rastell ).
The Cadaqués shoreline
Panorama of Cadaqués
Panorama of Cadaqués