cadaquez in the Costa Brava
Cadaques is by far the most pleasant place to stay on the nothern Costa Brava, reached only by the winding road over the hills from either Roses or Port de la Selva and consequently retaining an air isolation. With white-washed and bougainvillea-festooned houses lining narrow, hilly streets, a tree-lined promenade and craggy headlands on either side of harbour that is still a working fishing port,it's genuinely picturesque. Already by the 1920's and 1930s the place had begun to attract the likes of Picasso, Man Ray, Lorca, bunuel, Thomas Mann and Einstein, but Cadaquez really "arrived" as an artistic literary colony after World war II when surrealist painter Salvador Dali and his wife Gala settled at nearby Port Lligat, attracting for some years a floating bohemian community. Today a seafront statue of Dali haughtily gazing on the artists, well-heeled barcelonans and art seeking foreigners who have rolled up in his wake provides the town's physical and spiritual focal point. If you are looking for a hotel in la Costa Brava, the online booking agency www.barcelonapoint.com offers hotels in Cadaques, and many hotels in la Costa Brava. Feel free to choose the accommodation of your choice with Barcelonapoint.com