Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Figueres, Spain
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2.1 km
18 m
Explore Figueres in Spain with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Activities in FigueresIndividual Sights in FigueresSight 1: Plaça de Braus de Figueres
The Figueres Bullring is a bullring in the municipality of Figueres protected as a cultural asset of local interest.
Wikipedia: Plaça de Braus de Figueres (CA), Heritage Website
Sight 2: Museu de la Tècnica de l'Empordà
The Technical Museum of the Empordà is a technology museum in Figueres, Spain.
Sight 3: Museu de l'Empordà
The Museum of the Empordà is an art museum in Figueres, Catalonia (Spain). Its history dates back to 1885, when the first collections arrived from the Prado Museum, bringing together a collection of artworks from the Catalan art scene and the Empordà in particular. The collection includes archaeological works, medieval art and Baroque paintings. Built in 1946, the building was opened in 1971. From 1998 onwards it has been managed by a consortium made up of Figueres Town Council, the Regional Council of Alt Empordà and the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation. As of 2015 the consortium has been dissolved, and the museum is managed by the Department of Culture of Figueres Town Council.
Sight 4: Museu del Joguet de Catalunya
The Toy Museum of Catalonia in Figueres was inaugurated in 1982 in the premises of the old "Hotel París" on the Rambla de Figueres. Recent renovation and adaptation works have tripled the initial space of the Museum, which reopened on 12 December 1998. It is part of the Network of Local Museums of Catalonia-Girona.
Sight 5: Sant Pere de Figueres
The church of Sant Pere in Figueres is a parish church, mostly Gothic in style, located in the Plaça de Sant Pere in Figueres.
Sight 6: The Rainy Taxi
Rainy Taxi (1938), also known as Mannequin Rotting in a Taxi-Cab, is a three-dimensional artwork created by Salvador Dalí, consisting of an actual automobile with two mannequin occupants.
Sight 7: Gala desnuda mirando el mar que a 18 metros aparece el presidente Lincoln
Nude Gala Looking at the Sea at 20 meters away reveals President Lincoln is a painting by the Spanish painter Salvador Dalí around 1975. This oil and wood panel photograph depicts Gala Dalí nude from behind in a composition that from a distance reveals a large portrait of Abraham Lincoln. It is kept at the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation in Figueres. A later smaller-format version on canvas is in the Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida.
Wikipedia: Gala nue regardant la mer qui à 18 mètres laisse apparaître le président Lincoln (FR)
Sight 8: Torre Gorgot
The Gorgot Tower, modernly called Torre Galatea, is a building located at Pujada del Castell, nº. 26-28, Figueres, declared a cultural asset of national interest. It is currently part of the Dalí Theatre-Museum.
Sight 9: José Martín Hernán
A Stolperstein is a ten-centimetre (3.9 in) concrete cube bearing a brass plate inscribed with the name and life dates of victims of Nazi extermination or persecution. Literally, it means 'stumbling stone' and metaphorically 'stumbling block'.
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