[Article] Dallying with Dali in Cadaqués

Dallying with Dali in Cadaqués
Posted by Ree in Catalonia on 07/Oct/2006

Somewhat inaccessibly located on the Costa Brava, this small fishing town is the perfect escape from the heat of Spain's major cities, a place to dally for days on end. Some hippies have been dawdling here for decades, and their presence keeps the town from developing into a full-blown designer village, à la Martha’s Vineyard or the Hamptons. I can imagine this place becoming a more obscure “south of France” for celebrities, and get the sneaking suspicion that some of the hippies fishing off the rocks might in fact be celebrities incognito.

Cadaqués is famous for being Dali's home, but my husband and I came for the beaches and stayed for the food and the slightly off-kilter atmosphere...

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P.S. A very strange phenomenon observed along the Costa Brava: a plethora of flies. From dawn til dusk. They don't bite or sting, they just invade your personal space and grate on your nerves until you learn the Zen art of ignoring them..

Thanks for that note! A detail often overlooked by guidebook writers...

Would love to visit that town -- looks great. There is also the weird little Dali museum in Montmatre (Paris), which I visited years ago and found droll and strange for its "black box" character:

http://www.daliparis.com/

Not sure what the splash-page gravitas is all about, but seems to fit the weirdness of the gallery.

how many Dali museums are there?there was one in Figueres and Barcelona as well.The Barca one had some good stuff and some very very creepy ones ...