SALVADOR DALI, the surrealist Spanish artist, painted melting watches, broken bodies propped upon crutches and swans with elephant reflections. The centrepiece at his museum in Figueres in north-east Spain is a car with a waterfall inside, which turns on every half an hour, soaking the two dummies in the seats.
So we had expected his home to be weird. Casa Dali sits by a quiet bay near the fishing village of Cadaques, two hours' drive north of Barcelona on the Spanish Costa Brava (Wild Coast). In the last 50 years, it has become a place of pilgrimage for art lovers, especially since Dali died in 1982. (More...)
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