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Things to Do in & Around Figueres
Salvador Dali's Catalonia: More Things to Do

By Damian Corrigan, About.com

Figueres, the home to the Salvador Dali Museum, is two hours from Barcelona and so makes quite a long day trip just to go see a museum.

More: How to Get to Figueres from Barcelona and Girona.

One option is to stay in Girona which cuts the journey considerably (Girona is also worth seeing in its own right too). Alternatively, look into more things you can do in and around Figueres.

  • Dali Museum in Figueres
    The main reason anyone comes to Figueres. See Salvador Dali Museum in Figueres.
  • More Things to Do in Figueres
    Once you've done the Dali Museum, there's a few other things you could try.
    • Dali's place of birth is also in Figueres, but it is only really of historical interest.
    • There is also the Toy Museum of Catalonia, if that is your sort of thing.
    • A local museum of archaeological artefacts.

  • Dali Themed Activities Around Figueres
    • The Port Lligat Dali Museum, a smaller museum dedicated to Salvador Dali, can be found in Port Lligat, Cadaqués. The museum is in a former house of Dali, who lived there from 1930 until the death of his wife in 1982. There are buses from Figueres to Cadaqués but they are irregular and unreliable, so your own transport is probably the only way to get there.
    • Gala Dali Castle in Púbol - a shrine to Dali's deceased wife and Dali's home in his own final years. See also: Guided Tour of Figueres and Púbol Castle

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