Along with these spaces, we will also find the classic fairs and markets of our neighboring villas, where, along with the fair of Drawing and Painting, which takes place in Tossa de Mar on the second Sunday of August, the visitor can enjoy the fair Jocantic in Sant Feliu de Guíxols or the Medieval Fair of Lloret de Mar. In the Costa Brava, in addition, we will find smaller museums like the Terracotta Museum, the Museum of the Cork, or the Museum of the Fishing.
In the city where he was born, Figueres, we find the Dali Theater-Museum, the surreal object of the world. This space occupies the building of the old Municipal Theater, a construction of the nineteenth century partially destroyed at the end of the Civil War and in which on its ruins, Dalí decided to create his museum. In this great surreal space the visitor can enter the universe of the brilliant painter and artist of Figueres, where he can contemplate many of his works, as pictorial as sculptural or conceptual. From small drafts to large paintings, through surreal recreations of classical works or conceptual designs that question the way things were understood at the time, in the Dalí Museum visitors can enjoy all the creative ingenuity of a great artists Of S. XX.
A little further north, in the beautiful village of Cadaqués, you will find the current Portlligat House-Museum, which was the only stable house of Salvador Dalí; The place where he lived and worked regularly until in 1982, with the death of Gala, he settled in Púbol Castle.
In the latter place, El Castillo Gala Dalí de Púbol, open to the public since 1996, visitors can discover a medieval building where Salvador Dalí materialized an overflowing creative effort thinking of a person: Gala.
In each and every one of these spaces, the traveler can get an idea of the magnitude of the figure of the painter, the greatest exponent of surrealism in the world, and first-hand experience of the places that marked his life and artistic career.
Among the great variety of tourist offer that the Costa Brava offers, it is worth talking about our culture. From the legacy of the famous painter Salvador Dalí, which you will find in the museum of the city of Figueres, the Gala Dalí Castle of Púbol or its former house of Portlligat, to the Carmen Thyssen Space of Sant Feliu de Guíxols, inaugurated summer 2012, and One of the highest artistic references of the Costa Brava and Catalonia.