Cap de Creus
The Cap de Creus is a peninsula and a headland located at the far northeast of Catalonia, some 25 kilometres south from the French border. The cape lies in the municipal area of Cadaqués, and the nearest large town is Figueres, the capital of the Alt Empordà and the birthplace of Salvador Dalí.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Polmatce, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Locality
- Description: cape in Costa Brava
- Also known as: “Cape of Creus”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Far de cap de Creus and Puig Pelegrí.
Far de cap de Creus
Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Supermakoki, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Far de cap de Creus is a scenic viewpoint.
Puig de s’Alqueria
Peak
Photo: Soniettte, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Puig de s’Alqueria is a peak, which is situated 3½ km southwest of Cap de Creus.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cadaqués and Portlligat.
Cadaqués
Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cadaqués is a picturesque whitewashed fishing town on the northern Costa Brava, set in a wide bay on the Cap de Creus peninsula in Alt Empordà, Catalonia.
Portlligat
Hamlet
Photo: velomartinez, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Portlligat is a small village located in a small bay on Cap de Creus peninsula, on the Costa Brava of the Mediterranean Sea, in the municipality of Cadaqués in the Alt Empordà comarca, in Catalonia, Spain. Portlligat is situated 4 km southwest of Cap de Creus.
Cap de Creus
- Category: cape
- Location: Catalonia, Eastern Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
42.3195° or 42° 19′ 10″ northLongitude
3.3223° or 3° 19′ 20″ eastOpen location code
8FJ5889C+QWOpenStreetMap ID
node 577361671OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeOpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Ukrainian—“Cap de Creus” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Kreus burnu”
- Basque: “Creus lurmuturra”
- Basque: “Creus”
- Basque: “Creuseko lurmutur”
- Basque: “Creuseko lurmuturra”
- Catalan: “cap de Creus”
- Catalan: “Cap de Creus”
- Cebuano: “Cap de Creus”
- Chinese: “克雷烏斯角”
- Czech: “Cap de Creus”
- Czech: “Creus”
- Danish: “Cap de Creus”
- Dutch: “Cabo de Creus”
- Dutch: “Cap de Creus”
- Dutch: “Kaap van Creus”
- French: “Cap Creus”
- French: “cap de Creus”
- French: “Cap de creus”
- French: “Cap de Creus”
- French: “Cap De Creus”
- Galician: “Cabo de Creus”
- German: “Cap de Creus”
- German: “Kap Creus”
- Hebrew: “קאפ דה קרוס”
- Italian: “Cabo de Creus”
- Italian: “Cap de Creus”
- Italian: “Capo Creus”
- Japanese: “カップ・デ・クレウス”
- Japanese: “クレウス岬”
- Kabardian: “Креус”
- Lithuanian: “Kreuso kyšulys”
- Macedonian: “Креус”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cap de Creus”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Cap de Creus”
- Persian: “دماغه کروز”
- Polish: “Cabo de Creus”
- Polish: “Cap de Creus”
- Portuguese: “Cabo de Creus”
- Portuguese: “Cap de Creus”
- Russian: “Креус”
- Spanish: “Cabo de creus”
- Spanish: “Cabo de Creus”
- Spanish: “Cap de Creus”
- Swedish: “Cap de Creus”
- Ukrainian: “Креус”
- Ukrainian: “Мис Креус”
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