Advantages: visually stunning, will keep you entertained for hours Disadvantages: none
...shaped, well , eggs. Surrounded by well trimmed hedges and tall confiers of some sort it certainly makes a statement.
Welcome to the Teatre-Museu Dali.
Salvador Dali was a surrealist. Surrealism is an art movement in which the mind is supposedly liberated and so the unconsious mind can be used along with the dreamlike state gained in order to create images etc that are truer than reality or more than real. So some of the works of art may look a little strange and you have to use your imagination.
The Teatre-Museu Dali is certainly unlike any other museum I've ever visited, which was what Dali was aiming for when he stared designing it in the 1960's. It was a project he became devoted to and he wanted to create an atmosphere in which the visitor saw the museum, not as a storehouse for his works of art, but as an experience in which...
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...Boqueria, subject of the next article in the series, is a covered market that must be seen to be believed. The Museum of Erotica across the street has its fans - you know who you are! Admire the "Palau de la Virreina", "Gran Teatre del Liceu" and "Palau Güell". Finally, we reach the impressive Columbus Monument by the port. How about this for trivia - the discoverer of America is pointing in the wrong direction!
La Rambla can seem a lot longer than a single mile, depending on the mime artists, puppeteers and human statues there on the day. During our frequent passages, we witnessed a fidgety Batman in an ill-fitting suit, a couple in authentic 17th century attire, a 70 year-old Rivaldo impersonator and ET!
The pet stalls lining the avenue arouse mixed feelings of amazement and outrage at the sight of caged exotic creatures, from the mundane...
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