The tramontana wind, bitterly cold this mid-November Monday, howls furiously through the narrow, steep streets of Cadaqués, deserted today, with closed doors and windows and drawn shutters on bars and restaurants, all displaying signs announcing extended holidays. Quietude, tranquility, and the only sound, the onslaught of the tramontana. This is the Cadaqués that the Japanese painter Shigeyoshi Koyama loves, the Cadaqués he so desperately misses during the summer, when the revelry and noise take over the town day and night, forcing him into exile in the quiet village of Vilanova de la Muga until September, when the summer visitors leave and Cadaqués returns.

Cadaqués is a land of artists. The list of great creators fascinated by the bohemian atmosphere and idyllic setting of this town at the foot of Cap de Creus is very long, from the 19th century to the present day. Shigeyoshi Koyama, Marc Aleu, and Richard Hamilton are three of the most important, and this summer, for the first time in history, the Alto Empordà municipality has dedicated a joint exhibition to them at the Cadaqués Gallery, which can be visited until August 24.