DALI OBSESSED

DALI´S HOUSE PORT LLIGAT


I´m staying in Cadaques but on the same peninsula is Port Lligat where Dali lived. There are a lot of tourist that go to Port Lligat to see the crazy mans house. From Cadaques it´s about a 20 min walk to Port Lligat, but such a great walk! It´s through old parts of the fishing village and up a big hill so you can see the entire world- amazing. The only thing in Port Lligat is Dali´s house and two hotels. When Dali was alive and living there more people came in and were trying to build up the area for summer homes, Dali didn´t like that so he got the Spanish government to make him ambassador of the area therefore, nobody can build on Port Lligat unless the Dali Estate says it´s ok. So, it´s completely unbuilt besides two old hotels and Dali´s house.

Of course Dali´s house is ridiculous. Completely over the top and very bizarre. When his wife died he just got up and left the house so most of the things in the house are completely the way they were when he was living there. There are even two unfinished paintings in his workroom. The house is so cool, it´s a series of old fishing houses put together on the side of the mountain so there are a lot of small stairways and rooms that are connected in interesting ways. Only the bathrooms have doors on them so the whole house is open, which is so nice. He has a couple of outdoor patios and areas that are so cool and so weird. Lot´s of big eggs are placed everywhere. There´s a room outside that has a projector showing movies and an old piano that is built into the wall. The pool is such a weird shape I don´t think anyone actually swam in it, but it leads up to two thrones that Dali and Gala sat on. It is so over the top but so fascinating. And of course the water is beautiful and the view that he has from every room is amazing. Since Dali made Cadaques and Port Lligat famous everywhere you look there is something about Dali. There are big statues and posters and facts about him. This area seems totally Dali obsessed. Between Dali and Gaudi I´m seeing some totally bizarre things.

-- the first thing you see when you walk into Dali´s house. He stuffed all his animals. All the swans that lived outside his house he would stuff when they died, so they are everywhere in his house.

--- Dali and Gala´s bedroom.