Costa Brava Guide

The great artistic heritage of the Costa Brava region is housed in the whole designated museums and galleries where visitors can admire diverse artistic tendencies of every style and period.

Josep Pla Foundation, Palafrugell - The Josep Pla Foundation is located in the author's birth house and the neighbouring house. There, you can consult the Josep Pla library and the Documentation Centre, which contains the collection of manuscripts, the collection of images and the newspaper library. In his birth house, there is a ...

Dali Museum, Figueres - The Salvador Dalí Museum is the permanent home of the world's most comprehensive collection of the renowned Spanish artist's work. The Dalí Theatre-Museum contains a wide variety of works which portray the artistic trajectory of the Empordanese painter, from his first artistic ...

Antoni Pitxot Work, Dali Museum, Figueres - Antoni Pixtot is the director of the Dali Museum and was a friend and collaborator of Salvador Dali. Dalí became an early supporter of Antonio Pitxot's work, and eventually asked him to co-design the Dalí Theatre and Museum (Teatre-Museu Dalí) in Figueres, Spain. There is ...

Mae West Room, Dali Museum, Figueres - The Mae West Room is located in the Dali Theater-Museum. Couch shaped like a woman's red lips sat before a nose-shaped fireplace below two abstract paintings. If you climb a staircase and look through a lens the paintings become eyes, sofa lips fireplace nose frames by a giant curtain of hair which ...

Colonia Vidal, Puig-reig - Colonia Vidal was founded by Ignasi Vidal in 1898 in Puig-reig, a town in the Llobregat valley which was considerably affected by the opening of many water-powered textile mills. The first workers' housing in this one dates from 1900. The spectacular main shed, built parallel to the Llobregat, ...

Gala Dali House-Museum, Pubol - 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 ...

Salvador Dali House-Museum, Cadaques - Salvador Dali House-Museum is situated in Portlligat bay, north of Cadaques. The house is surrounded by the landscape and bathed in the light which Dali always reflected in his paintings. Indispensable for all those seeking to understand the painter's peculiar universe. Dali's studio, library and ...

Jewish History Museum, Girona - Jewish History Museum wants the rehabilitation of Girona's old Jewish Quarter, as well as housing temporary exhibitions on themes related to Jewish culture. Jewish History Museum services also include a specialised documentation centre and library. Activities related to Jewish culture throughout ...

Archaeological Museum, Banyoles - Archaeological Museum of Banyoles is housed in a Gothic palace, the centre features palaeontology and archaeology collections from different sites in the area. Archaeological Museum is distributed between two buildings. Most defining, the Archaeological and Paleontological Collection -the remains ...