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Figueres and the Dalí museum
FIGUERES
, a provincial town in the north of Catalunya with a population of
some thirty thousand,would pass almost unnoticed were it not for the Museu Dalí,
installed by Salvador Dalí in a building as surreal as the exhibits within. It’s a
popular day-trip from Barcelona, though you should make a reasonably early start
since even the fastest trains take an hour and forty minutes to reach the town.
The museum is very much the main event in town (it’s signposted from just
about everywhere), though a circuit of the impressive walls of the seventeenth-
century Castell de Sant Fernand, 1km northwest of the centre, the last bastion
of the Republicans in the CivilWar, helps fill in any spare time.The town is also
only half an hour by bus from the coast at Roses, or an hour from prettier
Cadaqués. In the centre, pavement cafés line the tree-shaded
rambla
and you can
browse around the art galleries, clothes stores and gift shops in the pedestrian-
ized streets and squares.There are a couple of other museums, too.The Museu
de l’Empordà has some local Roman finds and work by local artists, while the
Museu del Joguet is a toy museum with over three thousand exhibits from all
over Catalunya, but really these are small beer when compared to the Dalí
extravaganza.
Museu Dalí
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Museu Dalí
(July–Sept daily 9am–7.15pm; Aug daily 9am–7.15pm &
10pm–12.30am; Oct–June Tues–Sun 9.30am–5.15pm; €11, night visits €12;
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972 677 500;
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www.salvador-dali.org) appeals to everyone’s innate love of
fantasy, absurdity and participation. The museum is not a collection of Dalí’s
greatest hits – those are scattered far and wide. Nonetheless, what you do get
beggars description and is not to be missed.
The building (a former theatre on Plaça Gala i Salvador Dalí) is an exhibit in
itself, topped by a huge metallic dome and decorated with a line of luminous
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