I recently went for a long walk, over several weeks, down the Costa Brava from Banyuls, France to Sitges in Spain. I walked with no particular destination and on no schedule, so when I ended up in ...

In the days before the internet and the smartphone, when I was an impecunious writer living in Barcelona, two friends staying with me set out to explore the old fishing village of Cadaqués, 105 miles ...

Lethal-looking pitchfork-crutches, a trademark of Salvador Dalí's house in Portlligat Time passed more slowly there, he said, and it was a perfect place to work ...

It’s hard to top Barcelona, Spain’s most cosmopolitan and fun city. But it’s still worth considering a change of scenery through at least one of several tempting day trips from Barcelona: the ...

IN THE SOLITUDE OF Cadaqués Bay, time feels fluid. A fitting place, then, for Salvador Dalí to call home. Born an hour away in Figueres on the Costa Brava, the Spanish Surrealist settled here with his ...

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