Dali Planet #180: El Cucurucuc
Within view of Es Passeig is the islet of El Cucurucuc, in whose triangular shape some people fancy seeing a rhinoceros horn, some a toreador’s cap and some the bread loaves called pa de crostons that were once ubiquitous in Catalonia. Dali saw all three at once, and repeatedly used them as symbols in his paintings of the little island and other scenes real and imagined.
Above is one of his earliest renditions, “The Bay at Cadaques, with Cucurucuc Rock and the Sortell Peninsula”, from 1920.
