CavaTravel.com: Travel Info: Cadaqués, Spain

Sitges from the Mediterranean

Cadaqués was a resort home for artists, writers, and others from around Catalunya. Picasso spent time here, and Dalí's family summered here, visited by García Lorca, poet and great admirer of the small seaside village.

Activities
A favorite passtime in Cadaqués is the maritime paseo, the walk along the edges of the bay that is enclosed by the crescent of the town's intimate sprawl.

Hotels
Stay at a beachfront hotel, or above one of the small cafés in the center of Cadaqués. Hotels range from 3-star to 1-star pensiones. [More...]

Restaurants
Rich in sidewalk cafes, four-star dining, and fine cuisine accessible to all price ranges and palates.

Daytrips
Figueres » Girona » Barcelona » Empùries

Region
Catalunya has long been the industrial and financial hub of the Spanish economy, but is also known for its art, architecture, and for the fine wines and cavas that are grown there. The regional language, Catalán, is a romance language as unique, vibrant and distinct as French or Italian, and is proudly guarded and promoted by the locals.

Transportation
Regional trains take travelers to many cities throughout Catalunya, roughly 90 min. to Barcelona, 30 min. to France. Travelers can also charter boats to travel the Costa Brava, north of Barcelona.

Xampanyería: A Memoir of Spain

Nothing easier than getting lost in the ruins of another time.

The cobbles, the asphalt, the air were rich with sea salt. The mountains on the northwestern edge of Barcelona invited morning fogs to hang over the whole city, sinking only reluctantly back to the shoreline. These fogs lifted the sediment of history, daily, into the air, a ritual cleaning. A salty timeless savor would, daily, override the sooty-city residue of industry. For those intimate, empty hours, life itself opened up, became vulnerable, reliant upon our will. We tended to attempt to dwell among the salts.

No matter what my intended destination (many days I would have an insurmountable urge to pass by the Museo Picasso; other days, it was more important to find myself at the port’s edge, watching the world in flux), all streets, every exiting of an art gallery, every callejón or escondrijo, every late café luncheon, would lead me back to the xampanyería. We would sometimes joke that all of the Barri Gótic was a series of compartments of the spirit, all fascinating but exhausting, all begging the loud, unclean serenity of the crowded cava bar.

At four p.m., possibly, definitely within the hour, one could locate Michael or Saint Jerome or Renault, Farola or the Dutchman. Nevertheless, it was always the outside, the persistence of the old places, that would drive us there. It was always an integral part of a more organismal experience, never solely, or statically, ‘a separate peace’. [Full Text]

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Oxígeno y ciprés: junio en España

ENTRANDO...

Camino por el pasillo abierto que lleva hasta la puerta. Me recuerdo. Recuerdo sin fallos el lugar y el sentido del lugar. Ver el mismo cactus, el encanto de las plantas que llueven sobre los muros, ver la casa, el umbral, la cara y bondad insondable de Gloria, que siempre me cuidaba tan bien, significa una colaboración improbable con el fluír temporal.

Cenamos y hablamos de literatura, de leyenda y de la verdad. Hablamos de ese espacio infinito que corre por entre los nudos y planicies de la biografía a medias.

Me encuentro entre planes, entre mundos, entre variados trayectos de un progreso incierto que se llama vida. El aire tenue y privado está repleto de fantasmas e ideales, preferencias, gustos, y todo lo demás que pueda trascender los cambios cotidianos de la vida... [Texto completo]

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