Salvador Dalí was born in Figueres in 1904. From a young age, Dalí showed a precocious artistic talent, and the town remained central to his identity throughout his life, but it was later, in the 1960s and ’70s, that Dalí’s legacy truly transformed Figueres: he chose it as the site of his greatest and most eccentric creation, the Teatre-Museu Dalí (Dalí Theatre-Museum), which he designed himself on the ruins of the old municipal theater— where he held his first exhibition as a teenager.

The museum is a surreal masterpiece in its own right—painted in deep red and crowned with giant eggs, golden mannequins, and Dalí’s unmistakable symbolism. Inside, it houses one of the largest and most diverse collections of his work.

Dalí spent his final years in the museum and is buried in a crypt beneath its stage, merging life, art, and death in a single location—a final act of theatrical surrealism in his beloved hometown.