Portlligat is a small village located in a small bay on Cap de Creus peninsula, on the Costa Brava of the

Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the ...

, in the municipality of Cadaqués in the Alt Empordà

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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) was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in ...

moved to live in the village. Now his house has been converted into the Salvador Dalí House - Portlligat Museum. Both the bay and the island have been represented in several of Dalí's paintings, such as '' The Madonna of Port Lligat'', ''

Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus) ''Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus)'' is a 1954 oil-on-canvas painting by Salvador Dalí. A nontraditional, surrealist portrayal of the Crucifixion, it depicts Christ on a polyhedron net of a tesseract (hypercube). It is one of his best-known p ...

'', 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