Geo tour: Cadaqués, Púbol and Figueres.
Geo tour: Cadaqués, Púbol and Figueres. What’s the common?
If this is not the first time that you are visiting Catalonia- for more than a weekend -and you are looking for an adventure in the world of art, it’s highly recommended to you this triangle during a geo tour. The magic word is: Dalí (long version: Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marqués de Dalí de Púbol). Who was a prominent Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain.
“The Dalí Theatre-Museum in Figueres houses a large collection of surrealist works, along with the Dalí Jewels collection. In Portlligat (Cadaqués) you can visit the Salvador Dalí House-Museum, which was the painter’s private residence and workshop and which contains some of his furniture and personal items. The third site is the Gala Dalí Castle House-Museum in Púbol, in the municipal district of La Pera, which Dalí gave to his muse as a gift and where she is now buried.”- en.costabrava.org
“Púbol, an hour south of Portlligat and 20 minutes’ drive from the sea, seems made to seduce visitors with its old stone buildings, narrow winding streets, and ivy-covered walls. It is also home to the castle that Dalí bought for his wife in 1962. He envisioned it as a continuation of his home in Portlligat yet fully dedicated to his love for Gala, a place where “she would reign like an absolute sovereign” and which became her final resting place.
The castle dates from the 14th century—its foundations are 300 years older—and is inflected with Dalí’s creative genius. The ill repair in which he found the building was used in small ways to showcase his work, the space and his art working in harmony. While the couple undertook restoration, collapsed walls structured the home into unusual spaces and became Dalí’s canvas. The effect is surprising: a large and impersonal space becomes intimate in unexpected ways. Hand-painted frescos and surrealist touches throughout the castle clearly bear the artist’s signature fingerprint.”
See more at: http://www.barcelona-metropolitan.com/things-to-do/the-dali-triangle/#sthash.ZzhXalye.dpuf
Useful page: http://www.salvador-dali.org/