Alt Empordà

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 27. Chapters: Figueres, La Jonquera, Roses, Girona, Empúries, Cadaqués, El Bulli, Maçanet de Cabrenys, El Port de la Selva, Portbou, Els Límits, L'Escala, Figueres railway station, Boadella i les Escaules, Llançà, Sant Mori, Cantallops, Terrades, Biure, Darnius, Figueres-Vilafant railway station, Vilajuïga, Peralada, Sant Ferran Castle, Castelló d'Empúries, Quermançó Castle, Port Lligat, Empuriabrava, Sant Miquel de Fluvià, Sant Pere Pescador, Sant Llorenç de la Muga, Vilamaniscle, Avinyonet de Puigventós, Palau de Santa Eulàlia, Mollet de Peralada, La Selva de Mar, Siurana, Palau-saverdera, Santa Llogaia d'Àlguema, Sant Climent Sescebes, Vilabertran, Torroella de Fluvià, L'Armentera, El Far d'Empordà, Vilamacolum, Garriguella, Cabanes, Girona, Bàscara, Cabanelles, Pedret i Marzà, Pont de Molins, Cistella, Pau, Spain, La Vajol, Espolla, Agullana, Vilaür, Colera, Girona, Fortià, Garrigàs, Vilamalla, Albanyà, Borrassà, Navata, Lladó, Llers, Capmany, Riumors, Ventalló, Vila-sacra, Pontós, Rabós, Ordis, Masarac, Saus, Vilacolum. Excerpt: Cadaqués (Catalan pronunciation: ) is a town in the Alt Empordà comarca, in province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain. It is on a bay in the middle of the Cap de Creus peninsula, near Cap de Creus cape, on the Costa Brava of the Mediterranean. It is only a two-and-a-quarter hour drive from Barcelona, and thus it is very accessible and not only attracts tourists but people who want a second home for weekends and summers. In 2002, Cadaqués had an official population of 2,612, but up to ten times as many people can live in the town during the peak of the summer tourism season. Cadaqués has a special place in art history. Commanding charcoals, by local artist Mei Fren, of the 19th century Cadaqués beleaguered by a winter Tramontane, can be seen at the Cadaqués museum. 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. A summer holiday here in 1916, spent with the family of Ramon Pichot is seen as especially important to Dalí's artistic career. Other notable artists, including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Marcel Duchamp, Antoni Pitxot, Henri-François Rey, Melina Mercouri and Maurice Boitel also spent time here. Cadaqués is mentioned in the story Tramontana by Gabriel García Márquez. 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. On Mondays there is a travelling market in Cadaqués, located near the parking lot. This market has a wide variety of products. Cadaqués' Blue House (Casa Blava). Cadaqués' Cafe de La Habana video The adjacent village of Port Lligat, with Dali's home at rightIn the early 20th century a large number of inhabitants of Cadaqués travelled or emigrat