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Dali's Costa Brava, Costa Brava - Salvador Dali, the great master of surrealism holds a great appeal for visitors to the Catalan Pyrenees and the Costa Brava. Figueres, Cadaques-Portlligat and Pubol form the three corners of Salvador Dali's Triangle. Figueres, the capital of the Alt Emporda, is located 37 km north of Girona and ...

Gala Dali House-Museum, Pubol, Costa Brava - Since 1996, Pubol's medieval castle, the residence of Salvador Dali's wife in the 1970s and his own in the early-1980s, has housed the Gala Dali House-Museum. Inside are paintings and drawings Dali gave to Gala for exhibition in the castle, as well as the elephant sculptures which decorate the ...

Montgri Castle, Torroella de Montgri, Costa Brava - Symbol of the municipality. Started in 1294 at the orders of King James II, due to a confrontation with the earldom of Empúries, the works were interrupted in 1301 and the building left unfinished. The walls were raised, forming a square with the four towers built onto each of the ...

Peratallada Castle, Peratallada, Costa Brava - The village was documented as early as 1065. You can make out two clearly different sectors: the fortified centre and the palace. The fortified or defensive centre, in other words, the castle itself, are built on an enormous base of sandy rock. The palace is made up of various bodies of ...

Sant Antoni de Calonge - Sant Antoni de Calonge is a lovely village with a medieval layout crowding around the castle of the Dukes of Sessa, which was built in the 12th Century. Sant Antoni de Calonge has developed considerably through tourism along the beach which continues as far as Palamos. Around Sant Antoni de ...

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