Today’s Portlligat House-Museum was Salvador Dalí’s only stable house; his usual place of residence and where he worked until in 1982, when, after the death of Gala, he settled in Púbol Castle. In 1930, Salvador Dalí settled in a small fisherman’s hut in Portlligat, drawn to the place for its landscape, the light and its isolated nature. From the start of its initial construction, he spent 40 years creating his house. As Dalí himself defined it, it was “like a true biological structure [...]. Each new pulse of our life has its own new cell, a room.” Regarding his usual place of residence, Salvador Dalí stated: “Portlligat is the place of production, the ideal place for my work. Everything fits together to make it so: time goes more slowly and each hour has its proper dimension.”
Picture of Port Lligat where you can see the first constructions, specifically the building of the Port Lligat Hotel. It’s a photograph which belongs to the Sebastià Martí Roura Collection from 1941, and kept at INSPAI. The image predates the construction of the future Dalí House-Museum. It is interesting to be able to see the landscape that Salvador Dalí would have enjoyed and what he fell in love with; so much so that he decided to set-up home there. A basic and fundamental space for the creation of his work.
Location
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Casa-Museo Salvador Dalí, C. de Portlligat, s/n, Cadaqués, Provincia de Gerona 17488, España
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