Showing posts with label Cadaques. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cadaques. Show all posts

Monday, September 3, 2012

Camping Cadaqués .. and fishing village Cadaqués in Catalonia

Cadaqués is a famous "fishing village" with a population of nearly 3000 inhabitants and approximate 1900 permanent residents.
Cadaqués is geografically at a bay in the middle of the peninsula and nature reserve "Cap de Creus", a few kilometers south "Cap de Creus" cape, in the Mediterranean.
Due to its geographical location Cadaqués has a mild climate. It's not too hot in summer, in autumn and in winter there are often stronger winds with very unpleasant weather.
Cadaqués is 20 km south of France, in the province of Girona in Catalonia, in Spain, in the northern Costa Brava.

Cadaqués has its special place in art history:
In the old town is the Gothic church "Santa Maria", and inside is one of the most important baroque altars of Catalonia (from the catalan sculptor Pau Costa) from the 18th Century.
Near Cadaqués in Port Lligat is the house of Salvador Dalí, that is now a museum. In Cadaqués are various art galleries and several museums. Many artists who later became world famous were in Cadaqués like Picasso, Matisse, Duchamps, ...

The small port of Cadaqués in the evening with a special flair in the restaurants:
In Cadaqués is a special flair in the evening, when the tourists visit the excellent and relatively inexpensive restaurants. In contrast to the tourism town ROSES south from Cadaqués, where in the evenings the many shops are opened and in the bars music is played, it is very quiet in Cadaqués: Cadaqués is preferred by many french tourists.

Camping Cadaqués:
Cadaques has a well and inexpensive camping. Camping Cadaqués is on a hill, the bay and old town of Cadaqués can be reached by a beautiful walk of a few hundred meters. Camping Cadaqués has aceptable prices, a person can stay there for about 6,50 Euro per night in the main season. There are the usual campsites sanitation, also with washing machines that can be used for free.
There is a swimming pool, a cafe, ... The Camping Cadaqués is visited mainly by Spaniards, French, Italians and Germans. In the cafe you can buy some foods. Supermarkets in the center of Cadaqués with normal prices are in within 10 minutes walking distance.

The road from Cadaqués to ROSES and from there to Figueres or to "Port de la Selva" and from there to Llançà in direction to Portbou and France:
There is no coastal road from Cadaqués to ROSES, which runs along the coast of the "Cap de Creus". The road runs at first into the inland of the "Cap de Creus" and then from there in southern direction, until the sea is reached near ROSES.
Or the road runs into the inland of the "Cap de Creus" again and then from there in northern direction, until the coast is reached at "Port de la Selva". There are buses from Cadaqués to ROSES or to "Port de la Selva" to the usual low prices in Spain.

Monday, August 27, 2012

Nature reserve "Cap de Creus" - Pyrenean foothill into the Mediterranean Sea

The peninsula "Cap de Creus", in 1998 declared as nature reserve, also the easternmost point of the "Iberian Peninsula" and geographically eastern foothill of the Pyrenees into the Mediterranean Sea, extends with its bizarre rock formations about 10 km far into the Mediterranean.
The "Cap de Creus" is the northern border of the more than 15 km wide bay of "Gulf of Roses." The highest elevation of 670 meters above sea level is "Sant Salvador Saverdera".


The "Cap de Creus" is located in Catalonia and is approximately 25 kilometers south from France in the northern Costa Brava.
A famous tourist village on the peninsula is Cadaqués, a few miles south of the cape, the "Punta de Cap de Creus" with its lighthouse.
The "Punta de Cap de Creus" with its rocky bays is a popular destination for tourists and can be reached with motorboats and sailingboats, from Cadaqués, from Roses and from "Port de la Selva". These day trips are offered at the beach promenade in ROSES. Also the sea area of the "Punta de Cap de Creus" is a popular diving destination for scuba divers.