Figueres - a small Spanish town bordering France and representing the food and wine industry of Catalonia, has won worldwide fame thanks to the surrealist painter Salvador Dali, who was born here and spent much of his life. Later, Dali built a theater museum in his hometown, which today ranks second in popularity and attendance after the Prado in Madrid.
In addition to the museum in Figueres, you should look at Castell de Sant Ferran Castle, look into the Toy Museum or simply relax over a cup of coffee in a small cafe on one of the old streets in the city center.
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How to get to Figueras
It's best to get to Figueras by train from Barcelona from Barcelona-Sants, Passés de Gracia or El Clot-Arrago (1, 5-2, 15 hours, ~ 19-25 euros) or from Gerona. From Figueres, regular bus services to Barcelona and other destinations in Catalonia and southern France are also carried out. To get from the station to the Dali museum is not difficult: signposts are arranged around the city, at the worst you can get to the local ones by asking a question from one word - "Did you get it?" "(Stress, of course, on" and ").
From the alternative options there is the airport of Gerona \ Costa Brava, from there to Figueras there is a direct bus (Carrier Sagales).
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Kitchen and restaurants
Local Catalan dishes are soup of bull tails, pork sausage (fuet and butifarra), paella and, of course, gazpacho. Still there are not very useful, but very tasty patatas de Olot - fried potato slices with chopped pork.
Shopping
The historic center of Figueras is one huge outdoor playground, created for shoppers. And you can buy here, and products, and clothing with shoes, and household utensils.
For admirers of Salvador Dali creativity, there are special souvenir shops Tot Art (on the street Carrer de Llers, 6) and Art Surrealista (on Carrer de Sant Pere, 23).
And still in Figueras sell excellent sweets. The most delicious pastries in the old Forn la Barceloneta shop (in the street Carrer de la Muralla, 21), and traditional sweets - in Pastisseria Serra Lacasa in Plaça de la Adjustment.
Entertainment, excursions and attractions of Figueras
Not surprisingly, the main attraction of the city is the Salvador Dalí Theater and Museum, designed by the master himself on the site of the Figueras Town Theater destroyed in the Spanish Civil War in 1939.
Thousands of tourists are sent here to "observe, experience and enjoy" the works of one of the most outstanding artists of the world. At the insistence of El Salvador to explain the significance of any exposure in the museum is prohibited - the visitor must himself understand and feel the artist's intention. Local residents in memory of their main "son" portrayed the face of Salvador Dali in the best traditions of surrealism at the bottom of the main city street Rambla.
Two more city must-see - Catalan Gothic church of San Pere, created in the 14th century, and the castle of San Ferrán in the second half of the 18th century.
In Figueres, it is worth going to the Museo de Juguetes - there are more than 4,500 Catalan toys, some of which belonged to famous Spanish personalities, including Salvador Dali.
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Events
In addition to national local festivals like Festa de Sant-Baldiri (May 20) and Festa de Sant Pere (June 29), in Figueres there is the famous acoustic festival (late August-early September), Toy Festival May 23 and Fires- de la Santa Cru (from April 30 to May 9) with handicraft, book and grocery fairs.
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