No trip to Costa Brava is complete without a trip to the Dali Museum in Figueres, just north of Girona. There are several Dali museums around the region, but the Teatre-Museu Dali is probably the biggest (and brightest… with a glass geodesic dome and studded with Dali’s iconic egg shapes).
It’s easy to wail away an afternoon at this place (so sensible espadrilles a must!). Some of my favorites were probably his lesser-known works on charcoal (very simple though immensely powerful), although there were other memorable pieces – such as “Gala at the Mediterranean,” which takes the body of Gala (Dali’s wife) and morphs it into the image of Abraham Lincoln… yes, did I mention, the man was odd?
