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Dalí Theatre-Museum

Figueres, Alt Empordà, Girona

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Dalí Theatre-Museum

Monument · Figueres, Alt Empordà, Girona

The Teatre-Museu Dalí, opened in 1974, occupies the former Teatro Principal of Figueres, a neoclassical building constructed between 1848 and 1850 by the architect Josep Roca i Bros, which was the city's great social showcase. The theatre fell into disuse at the end of the Civil War, in 1939, and a fire gutted its premises, leaving only the façade and walls standing; on those ruins the current museum was built, devised by Dalí himself and crowned by his geodesic dome. Together with the castle of Púbol and the Casa-Museu de Portlligat, it forms the Dalí Triangle of the Empordà, managed by the Fundación Gala-Salvador Dalí, and it houses the most complete collection of the painter's work, as well as his tomb. It is considered the largest surrealist object in the world.

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