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Figueras: Teatro-Museo Dalí
Surreal fun
Take a high speed RENFE train from Barcelona Sants to Figueres; the journey takes 1 hour and 16 minutes. From the station it's a 12 minute walk to the Teatro-Museo.
Son of a dignified lawyer and notary, Salvador Dalí was born in Figueres in 1904 (C/ Monturiol 10, to be precise) and like Picasso was a prodigiously gifted child. Early on, his impeccable technique and ability to paint in any style he chose, along with his imagery based on 'critical paranoia' made him one of the best known Surrealists. He never disguised his love for fortune and fame, even after André Breton, the founding father of the Surrealism movement, sniffed that his name was merely an anagram of 'Avida Dollars'.
Dalí may have seemed half-mad to many, and managed to offend just about everyone at some point in his life, but he wasn't stupid: all of his flagrant self promotion and money grabbing (which almost seems amateurish by today's Damien Hirst standards) did allow Dalí to do exactly as he pleased.
Image by jpvargas