Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí's home in Portlligat, a fishermen's cove in Comarques Gironines, Catalonia.
In 1929, Dalí moved back from Paris to the area of Catalonia where he was from. He bought a small fishermen's cabin from a fisherman's widow and moved in with his wife, Gala. He started buying the houses of other fishermen that were around that one, and eventually built this labyrinthic "biological structure" (as he called it) consisting on different buildings decorated with things that Dalí collected throughout his life.
Dalí lived and worked here with Gala between 1930 and 1982, until Gala's death. Here, he could get away from the busy life of Paris and get closer to an ascetic lifestyle. In Dalí's words (translated):
It was there [in this house] where I learned to become poorer, to limit and file down my thoughts to give it the efficacy of an axe, where blood tasted like blood and honey tasted like honey. [...] Gala and I went months and months without any more personal contacts than Lídia [the widow whose cabin he bought], her two children, our maid, Ramon de Hermosa and the handful of fishermen who kept their nets in the Portlligat cabins. At night, they all went to Cadaqués, and Portlligat remained absolutely deserted, inhabited only by the two of us.
Dalí never came back after Gala's death in 1982. He died in 1989. The building has been preserved and nowadays it's a museum: Casa-Museu Salvador Dalí.
1st photo from Girona Tour and the rest by Bob Masters for Calaix.
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