Figueres - The Dali Theatre-Museum

The town of Figueres is an easy day trip from Barcelona by train. It's main (some would say only) claim to fame is that it is the hometown of Salvadore Dali and the location of the Dali Theatre-Museum. Just exit the train station and wind your way through town until you come to the big building with giant eggs on the roof and loaves of bread adhered to the outside walls. Built on the ruins of a theater that was bombed during the Spanish Civil War, the museum is self-described as the largest surrealistic object in the world. It features many paintings and drawings from Dali's own collection, strange sculptures, interactive mechanical contraptions that move when you drop in a coin, a room full of furniture that looks like Mae West when viewed from a certain spot, and other bits of weirdness hanging from the ceilings, hovering in niches or stuck to the walls.

The Dali Theatre-Museum. Those are loaves of bread decorating the walls (of course).




Dali's 1941 Cadillac. Now that's a hood ornament.


Mae West Room






A surrealistic couple