Portlligat is a small village located in a small

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Cap de Creus The Cap de Creus (Cabo de Creus in Spanish) is a peninsula and a headland located at the far northeast of Catalonia, some south from the French border. The cape lies in the municipal area of Cadaqués, and the nearest large town is Figuere ...

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, on the

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of the

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, in the municipality of

Cadaqués Cadaqués (; ) is a town in the Alt Empordà ''comarca'', in the 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 a two-and-a- ...

in the

Alt Empordà Alt Empordà (; ; "Upper Empordà") is a Comarques of Catalonia, comarca (county) located in the Comarques Gironines, Girona region, in Catalonia, Spain. It is one of two comarques into which Empordà was divided by the comarca division of Catalo ...

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, in

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. The island of Portlligat is located at the entrance of the bay, separated from the mainland by a narrow 30-metre-wide canal. It gathered world attention after surrealist painter

Salvador Dalí Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol (11 May 190423 January 1989), known as Salvador Dalí ( ; ; ), was a Spanish Surrealism, surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, ...

moved to live in the village. Now his house has been converted into the

Salvador Dalí House Museum The Salvador Dalí House Museum (; ) is a house museum in Portlligat, Cadaqués, Catalonia, Spain, where Spanish painter Salvador Dalí lived and worked, from 1930 to 1982. After the death of his wife, Gala Dalí, in 1982, he took up residence at ...

. Both the bay and the island have been represented in several of Dalí's paintings, such as ''

The Madonna of Port Lligat ''The Madonna of Port Lligat'' is a pair of paintings by Salvador Dalí. The first was created in 1949, measuring 49 x 37.5 centimetres (19.3 x 14.8 in), and is housed in the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin ...

'', ''

Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) ''Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus)'' is a 1954 oil-on-canvas painting by Salvador Dalí. A nontraditional, surrealism, surrealist Crucifixion in art, portrayal of the Crucifixion, it depicts Christ on a polyhedron net of a tesseract (hypercube). ...

'', and '' The Sacrament of the Last Supper''.

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Salvador Dalí's House in Portlligat

Salvador Dalí House - Portlligat
Populated places in Alt Empordà Salvador Dalí {{catalonia-stub