Where did Salvador Dalí grow up and live?

📍Port Lligat, 17488 Cadaqués, Catalonia, Spain

1930 – 1982

“I was born Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech on the 11th of May 1904 in Figueres, Catalonia, and spent the most important years of my life in the Costa Brava fishing village of Cadaqués and the nearby hamlet of Portlligat, where I built and rebuilt a house from connected fishermen's cottages over forty years. The Cadaqués landscape — the rocky coves, the olive trees, the particular quality of the Tramontane wind and the Mediterranean light — was the landscape of The Persistence of Memory. I returned to Portlligat after every journey and the house grew with each return. Gala and I lived there together and she is buried in the castle I bought for her at Púbol. Portlligat was the only place I was entirely myself.”

👍 LovedThe Costa Brava landscape — the rocks, the coves, the light unlike anywhere else on the Mediterranean. The Portlligat house that grew organically over forty years.

👎 DislikedThe distance from Paris that the Portlligat life required. The complexity of the relationship with Gala. The public persona that became a trap.

Map showing where Salvador Dalí lived — Port Lligat, 17488 Cadaqués, Catalonia, Spain

🗺️ Approximate location today

Satellite view of Salvador Dalí's home at Port Lligat, 17488 Cadaqués, Catalonia, Spain

Sources: Gibson, I. The Shameful Life of Salvador Dalí (1997), Faber & Faber; Dalí, S. The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí (1942), Dial Press