Hugo Carriço
Figueres city and Salvador Dali Museum
Figueres
is the capital of the comarca (district) of Alt Empordà, in the province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
The town is the birthplace of artist Salvador Dalí, and houses the Teatre-Museu Gala Salvador Dalí, a large museum designed by Dalí himself which attracts many visitors. It is also the birthplace of Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol, inventor of the first successful machine powered submarine. Also born here was Monica Naranjo, one of the best selling Spanish singers of the 1990s and 2000s.
The city is twinned with Perpignan (Pyrénées Orientales), just over the Pyrenees in France.
Figueres is situated in the northeast corner of Catalonia. With 43,330 inhabitants (INE 2009), is the most important city near the border with France and articulates an important communications hub that make entrance and stopping place for travelers and tourists in and out of Spain .
Located in the center of an extensive floodplain, Figueres is the capital of the region of Alt Empordà and acts as the economic, commercial and socio-cultural region. The tourist vocation of the region makes Figueras at the heart of the Costa Brava, one of the major tourist areas in Catalonia [citation needed].
Its geographical and strategic position make it an important communications center equipped with great accessibility. You can get there directly by road or rail. Road is accessed through the A-7 motorway (exit no. 4, Figueras south if coming from Barcelona and No. 3 exit if coming from France) in the N-II and the N-260 from Portbou. As regards the railway, the station is located in the downtown and it must stop all trains of the international Barcelona-Portbou/Cervera making units with direct link to Barcelona, and trains to Madrid and other parts of Spain. In 2004 was due to arrive AVE (TGV) linking, quickly and conveniently with the major Spanish and European cities. Opposite the railway station is located the bus station which is a staging point for the international lines as well as departure and arrival of buses Catalan and county lines.
Salvador dali Museum
The Dalí Theatre and Museum (Teatre-Museu Dalí in Catalan language), is a museum of the artist Salvador Dalí in his home town of Figueres, in Catalonia.
The heart of the museum was the building that housed the town's theatre when Dalí was a child, and where one of the first public exhibitions of young Dalí's art was shown. The old theater was bombed in the Spanish Civil War and remained in a state of ruin for decades until Dalí and the mayor of Figueres decided to rebuild it as a museum dedicated to the town's most famous son in 1960. The museum also occupies buildings and courtyards adjacent to the old theater building.
The museum opened in 1974, with continuing expansions through the mid-1980s. It houses the single largest and most diverse collection of works by Salvador Dalí, the heart of which was from the artist's own collection. In addition to Dalí paintings from all decades of his career, there are Dalí sculptures, 3-dimensional collages, mechanical devices, a living-room with custom furniture that looks like the face of Mae West when viewed from a certain spot, and other curiosities from Dalí's imagination.
The museum also houses a small selection of works by other artists collected by Dalí, ranging from El Greco to Marcel Duchamp, and a gallery devoted to the work of Dalí's friend and fellow Catalan artist Antoni Pitxot, who became director of the museum after Dalí's death.
Dalí is buried in a crypt in the Teatre-Museum basement
Figueres city and Salvador Dali Museum
Figueres
is the capital of the comarca (district) of Alt Empordà, in the province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
The town is the birthplace of artist Salvador Dalí, and houses the Teatre-Museu Gala Salvador Dalí, a large museum designed by Dalí himself which attracts many visitors. It is also the birthplace of Narcís Monturiol i Estarriol, inventor of the first successful machine powered submarine. Also born here was Monica Naranjo, one of the best selling Spanish singers of the 1990s and 2000s.
The city is twinned with Perpignan (Pyrénées Orientales), just over the Pyrenees in France.
Figueres is situated in the northeast corner of Catalonia. With 43,330 inhabitants (INE 2009), is the most important city near the border with France and articulates an important communications hub that make entrance and stopping place for travelers and tourists in and out of Spain .
Located in the center of an extensive floodplain, Figueres is the capital of the region of Alt Empordà and acts as the economic, commercial and socio-cultural region. The tourist vocation of the region makes Figueras at the heart of the Costa Brava, one of the major tourist areas in Catalonia [citation needed].
Its geographical and strategic position make it an important communications center equipped with great accessibility. You can get there directly by road or rail. Road is accessed through the A-7 motorway (exit no. 4, Figueras south if coming from Barcelona and No. 3 exit if coming from France) in the N-II and the N-260 from Portbou. As regards the railway, the station is located in the downtown and it must stop all trains of the international Barcelona-Portbou/Cervera making units with direct link to Barcelona, and trains to Madrid and other parts of Spain. In 2004 was due to arrive AVE (TGV) linking, quickly and conveniently with the major Spanish and European cities. Opposite the railway station is located the bus station which is a staging point for the international lines as well as departure and arrival of buses Catalan and county lines.
Salvador dali Museum
The Dalí Theatre and Museum (Teatre-Museu Dalí in Catalan language), is a museum of the artist Salvador Dalí in his home town of Figueres, in Catalonia.
The heart of the museum was the building that housed the town's theatre when Dalí was a child, and where one of the first public exhibitions of young Dalí's art was shown. The old theater was bombed in the Spanish Civil War and remained in a state of ruin for decades until Dalí and the mayor of Figueres decided to rebuild it as a museum dedicated to the town's most famous son in 1960. The museum also occupies buildings and courtyards adjacent to the old theater building.
The museum opened in 1974, with continuing expansions through the mid-1980s. It houses the single largest and most diverse collection of works by Salvador Dalí, the heart of which was from the artist's own collection. In addition to Dalí paintings from all decades of his career, there are Dalí sculptures, 3-dimensional collages, mechanical devices, a living-room with custom furniture that looks like the face of Mae West when viewed from a certain spot, and other curiosities from Dalí's imagination.
The museum also houses a small selection of works by other artists collected by Dalí, ranging from El Greco to Marcel Duchamp, and a gallery devoted to the work of Dalí's friend and fellow Catalan artist Antoni Pitxot, who became director of the museum after Dalí's death.
Dalí is buried in a crypt in the Teatre-Museum basement