Very soon, the village became a favourite spot for local and foreign artists who were attracted by the beauty of its rugged and rocky landscape. A lot of painters and writers before Dalí visited Cadaqués as Eliseu Meifren or contemporanies such as Picasso, Duchamp, Max Ernst, Magritte and Antonio Pitxot along with his family known for its artistic and musical talent in addition to writers such as Paul Eluard and his wife Gala, Federico García Lorca, Eugeni d'Ors and Josep Pla, as well as the famous filmaker Luís Buñuel passed through Cadaqués among many others.