One of the most popular tourist destinations in Spain is Barcelona - all happens in Catalonia. If you spend your holiday in Lloret da Mar, or stay in Barcelona, do not miss the nearby Figueres!
Besides the fantastic aqua park in Barcelona, Picasso Museum, the famous Barca football stadium ... one day take to Figueras - a place where the living spirit of the famous surrealism of Salvador Dali!
This unique painter, writer and director, has the time of his life itself was built museum where he was buried.
On entering the museum, whose facade is decorated with applications, eggs and bread, there is a special construction made from a Cadillac and a boat that belonged to his wife Dalis Galina.
For this car, Dali was particularly attached because he had been on many trips with his beloved wife, and it was on time immortalized in the museum in which it feels the presence of Dali's great love, Galina, the woman who was much older than him, due to which he suffered all his life, that he was the main inspiration for the artwork, but the reason for sadness because he thought that he would never be able to satisfy in any way, as wife and husband.
The most famous part of the hologram that you can see in museum as a portrait of American president Abraham Lincoln, which is located in the center of the ground-floor galleries.
GALINA / an obsession, happiness, sadness...
Salvador Dali's wife was his special obsesion!. Immediately after the wedding, he bought her a castle from the Middle Ages, where she was later buried. Many of Dali's works are inspired by Galina just like a mosaic on the ceiling of the main galleries of the museum, but a number of pictures where Dali shows his wife as something supernatural and divine and himself as a person with an inferiority complex, and beat the man and feeble man ...
Gala was a Russian immigrant and artist.She was 11 years older than Salvador Dali was.
ARTIST expelled from the Academy
Salvador Dali was born in Figueras, 1904, and died, also the birthplace, in 1989.
Do it with the Madrid Academy expelled because he had said that professors in the institution does not have enough competent person to assess his work!
After that he moved to Paris where he met Pablo Picasso and his contemporaries and worked and worked for many years.
MUSEUM AS LAVIRINT
The museum is usually built on the foundations of ancient theater Muncipal and contains a huge number of images, objects of art and design of the famous surrealist from every period of his work.
Many of the works are actually a combination of incompatible indicate a kind of imaginative combinations, so you can see mosaics, carved statues, film boxes, projectors, magnifying glass, furniture with unordinary design and the whole interior of certain premises.
During the summer, the Museum also organizes screenings of films that talk about the life and work of Salvador Dali.
TICKET PRICES
Price of individual tickets to the museum is 12 euro, a discount applies for students and pensioners, which map fits 9 euros. Tickets per person in group visits cost 8 euros.
More information at: www.salvador-dali.org
Tip - When you're done touring the museum, relax in a nearby garden very pleasant cafe. Try fine Catalonian coffee - tested good and is not expensive!
Besides the fantastic aqua park in Barcelona, Picasso Museum, the famous Barca football stadium ... one day take to Figueras - a place where the living spirit of the famous surrealism of Salvador Dali!
This unique painter, writer and director, has the time of his life itself was built museum where he was buried.
On entering the museum, whose facade is decorated with applications, eggs and bread, there is a special construction made from a Cadillac and a boat that belonged to his wife Dalis Galina.
For this car, Dali was particularly attached because he had been on many trips with his beloved wife, and it was on time immortalized in the museum in which it feels the presence of Dali's great love, Galina, the woman who was much older than him, due to which he suffered all his life, that he was the main inspiration for the artwork, but the reason for sadness because he thought that he would never be able to satisfy in any way, as wife and husband.
The most famous part of the hologram that you can see in museum as a portrait of American president Abraham Lincoln, which is located in the center of the ground-floor galleries.
GALINA / an obsession, happiness, sadness...
Salvador Dali's wife was his special obsesion!. Immediately after the wedding, he bought her a castle from the Middle Ages, where she was later buried. Many of Dali's works are inspired by Galina just like a mosaic on the ceiling of the main galleries of the museum, but a number of pictures where Dali shows his wife as something supernatural and divine and himself as a person with an inferiority complex, and beat the man and feeble man ...
Gala was a Russian immigrant and artist.She was 11 years older than Salvador Dali was.
ARTIST expelled from the Academy
Salvador Dali was born in Figueras, 1904, and died, also the birthplace, in 1989.
Do it with the Madrid Academy expelled because he had said that professors in the institution does not have enough competent person to assess his work!
After that he moved to Paris where he met Pablo Picasso and his contemporaries and worked and worked for many years.
MUSEUM AS LAVIRINT
The museum is usually built on the foundations of ancient theater Muncipal and contains a huge number of images, objects of art and design of the famous surrealist from every period of his work.
Many of the works are actually a combination of incompatible indicate a kind of imaginative combinations, so you can see mosaics, carved statues, film boxes, projectors, magnifying glass, furniture with unordinary design and the whole interior of certain premises.
During the summer, the Museum also organizes screenings of films that talk about the life and work of Salvador Dali.
TICKET PRICES
Price of individual tickets to the museum is 12 euro, a discount applies for students and pensioners, which map fits 9 euros. Tickets per person in group visits cost 8 euros.
More information at: www.salvador-dali.org
Tip - When you're done touring the museum, relax in a nearby garden very pleasant cafe. Try fine Catalonian coffee - tested good and is not expensive!