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Port of Cadaqués
Port of Cadaqués
Shoreline of Cadaqués at night
Shoreline of Cadaqués at night

Cadaqués is a town in the Alt Empordà comarca, in Girona province, Catalonia, Spain. Alt Empordà ("Upper Empordà" is a comarca (county in Catalonia, Spain, one of two into which Empordà was divided by the comarcal This is a list of the comarques (singular "comarca") of Catalonia ( Spain) Catalonia (Cataluña Catalunya Aranese: Catalonha) is an Autonomous Community in the northeast part of Spain. Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. It is on a bay near the Cap de Creus peninsula, on the Costa Brava of the Mediterranean Sea. Headlands and bays are two related features of the coastal environment Cap de Creus ( Cape of crosses in Catalan) is located at the far NE of Catalonia, some 25 km south from the French border A peninsula is a piece of land that is nearly surrounded by Water but connected to Mainland via an Isthmus. The Costa Brava is a coastal region of northeastern Catalonia, Spain, in the comarques of Alt Empordà, Baix Empordà and 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 2,612 people. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar.

Artist Salvador Dalí often visited here in his childhood, and later kept a home in Port Lligat, a small bay next to the village. The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of Activities to do with creating Art, practicing the Arts and/or demonstrating Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech 1st Marquis of Púbol (May 11 1904 &ndash January 23 1989 was a Spanish Catalan Surrealist Other notable artists, including Mei Fren (see his commanding charcoals of the nineteenth century Cadaqués beleaguered by a winter tramontan in the Cadaqués museum. He was the first 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), Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Marcel Duchamp, Antoni Pitxot, Henri-François Rey, Melina Mercouri and Maurice Boitel also spent time here. Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso (October 25 1881 &ndash April 8 1973 Joan Miró i Ferrà ( April 20, 1893 &ndash December 25, 1983) was an ethnic Catalan (of Spanish nationality Marcel Duchamp (maʀsɛl dyˈʃɑ̃ (28 July 1887 &ndash 2 October 1968 was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist Antoni Pitxot, or Antonio Pichot Soler in Castilian, also Antonio Pitxot (born 1934 in Figueres, Catalonia) is a Catalan and Melina Mercouri ( Greek: Μελίνα Μερκούρη, born Maria Amalia Mercouri) ( Athens Greece, October 18, 1920 Maurice Boitel (born July 31, 1919 - died August 11, 2007 in Audresselles Cadaqués is mentioned in the story Tramontana by Gabriel García Márquez. Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez (born March 6 1927 is a Colombian

In a time it remained undisturbed, its interesting submarine flora was studied during several years by psychologist Françoise Ardré. Françoise Ardré (born in 1931 is a French Phycologist and marine scientist; honoured as the namesake of the Red alga known as Pterosiphonia

Long a sleepy fishing village, Cadaqués is now a tourism destination. For the computer security term see Phishing. Fishing is the activity of catching Fish. Tourism is Travel for Recreational or Leisure purposes The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who "travel Although it has about 2,000 permanent residents, sometimes up to 10 times that number of visitors stay there.

The famous Salvador Dali visited this city during the summer holiday of 1916, and discovered 'modern painting'. This holiday (that he spent with family of Ramon Pichot) was the start to his wonderful career creating mind-boggling creations. Ramon Pichot Gironès ( 1872 - 1 March, 1925) was a Catalan and Spanish Artist.

On Mondays there is a travelling market in Cadaqués, located near the parking lot. This market has a wide variety of products.

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Relationship with Cuba

In the early 20th century 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). The Republic of Cuba (ˈkjuːbə or) consists of the island of Cuba (the largest and second-most populous island of the Greater Antilles) Isla de la Many of these immigrants were financially successful in Cuba and returned to Cadaqués where they constructed large and ornate houses. These houses can still be seen in the town (for example; the "Casa Blava", "Blue House" in English)). A person returned from Cuba was referred to as an "Americano" among other names.

Notable Visitors and Residents

Language

The village of Cadaqués has its own variant or "speech" of the Catalan language. Richard Hamilton (born February 24 1922) is an English painter and Collage artist WikipediaWikiProject Composers#Lead section --> John Milton Cage Jr Jean Tinguely ( 22 May 1925 in Fribourg, Switzerland – 30 August, 1991 in Bern) was a Swiss painter James Neville Mason ( 15 May 1909 – 27 July 1984) was a three-time Academy Award -nominated British Actor who André Derain ( June 10, 1880 – September 8, 1954) was a French painter and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse Morera Jacint (born 16 November 1915 Terrassa (Barcelona died 1 July 1989 Calonge (Girona was a painter caricaturist and muralist Maria Martins (born 1 April 1974) is a French middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 and 3000 metres. One of the most notable features is that the definite articles are different from standard Catalan, namely, they are "sa" (feminine) and "es" masculine instead of the normal Catalan definite articles "la" and "el". This feature is interestingly shared with the variant of Catalan spoken in the Balearic Islands. The Balearic Islands ( Catalan and official Illes Balears; Spanish: Islas Baleares) are an Archipelago in the western Mediterranean The explanation for this (see "El Vocabulari de Cadaqués", Ernesta Sala i Bruses) is that when the Catalan ruler Jaume I conquered the Balearic Islands in the Middle Ages he re-colonized the islands with people from the Empordà region of Catalonia. James I the Conqueror ( Catalan: Jaume el Conqueridor, Aragonese: Chaime lo Conqueridor, Spanish: Jaime el Conquistador Because Cadaqués has remained relatively isolated from the surrounding region (owing to its geography), the mediaeval speech patterns have been preserved.

Another aspect of the speech variant of Cadaqués is the alteration of the first person singular of certain verbs: conjugations that normally end in "o" end in "i" in the Cadaqués variant. For example "a vegades agafi molt per Cala Nans" (informant was an approximately 90 year old fisherman). In standard Catalan this would be "a vegades agafo molt per Cala Nans" (meaning: sometimes I catch a lot at Cala Nans) The speech variant of Catalan has most similarities with the Catalan spoken in Eivissa (Balearic Islands)

The Catalan variant of Cadaqués is referred to as "Cadaquesenc" by the local people and also has many lexical items. Examples:

  1. rastell: a street (normally with a steep slope) which is formed with pieces of slate stone placed in a vertical position. These types of streets are very characteristic of the streets of Cadaqués.
  2. grop: a black rain cloud
  3. llagut: a small boat
  4. talaia: an elevated castle or look-out which could warn the village of danger or transmit other signals (example: approaching ships) - compare with the "talaiots" of menorca.
  5. xarxi: a (fishing) net, as opposed to "xarxa" in standard Catalan
  6. Norai: Is a stone cylindrical building with a large stone on the top that fishermans used to attach their boats. 
You can see it and the main photo at bottom.

Hermitage of Sant Sebastià

The hermitage of Sant Sebastià is a large house located high on the mountain Pení behind Cadaqués. It is a private residence not open to the public. The hermitage is surrounded by cork trees, and is built on a steep slope. There is a walking path which leads from the town of Cadaqués up to the hermitage and this path follows the old "road" (although it is not, and never was suitable for any wheeled vehicle) from the town to the hermitage. There is also a more modern road (not asphalted) which leads to the hermitage. The hermitage can also be regarded as a "talaia" or a look-out to warn the village of potential pirate raids.

Traditions

Women of the village traditionally fetched water using a glazed earthen ware jug called a "doll". The colour of the glazing was green. Similar earthen ware can be seen still used as decorations. A number of photos exist showing women carrying these "dolls" on their heads (with a cloth to protext their heads).

Owing to Cadaqués proximity to the French border and its isolation by land, the village had a tradition of running contraband. See writings by Josep Pla.

Cadaqués geology

Cadaqués and the surrounding peninsular known as the Cap de Creus owes its beauty in part to its complex geology. The rocks here were mashed up when the Pyrenees (or Pirineus in Catalan) were formed, and are mostly metamorphic schists which turn a golden colour in the Mediterranean sun.

Add to that the weather: this is one of the wildest spots on the Costa Brava in the winter (Costa Brava means "wild coast"), so the migmatites and schists are battered and eroded by the Tramuntana wind which whips off the mountains and a sea that appears as if it is boiling in the force 8 winds.

The Cadaqués migmatites formed under extreme pressure and temperatures: a partial melt. They are halfway between an igneous and metamorphic rock. The area also contains a lot of schist: a medium grade metaphorphic rock that has been flattened into sheets. White blocks of pegmatite mark where molten rock was squeezed through the older metamorphics at the end of the orogeny or mountain building.

The Cap de Creus is a great place to study Structural Geology. The geological history has been exposed by erosion from wind and sea, and many geologists have mapped the area for this reason.

Books about Cadaqués

External links

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


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