Púbol is a small town located in the municipality of
La Pera
La Pera is a municipality in Catalonia, north-eastern Spain. It includes the village of Púbol. The castle of Púbol includes a Gothic church with an altarpiece by Bernat Martorell; 20th-century painter Salvador Dalí
Salvador Domingo Felip ...
, in the
comarca (county) of
Baix Empordà
Baix Empordà in Catalan (; en, Lower Empordà, italic=yes) or Bajo Ampurdán in Spanish () is a ''comarca'' (county) in the province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain. It is one of the two ''comarca'' into which Empordà was divided in the comarcal d ...
, in the province of
Girona,
Catalonia,
Spain.
The artist
Salvador Dalí lived at the
Castle of Púbol
The Castle of Púbol or Gala Dalí Castle House-Museum ( ca, Castell de Púbol or ''Casa-Museu Castell Gala Dalí''; es, Castillo de Púbol or ''Casa-Museo Castillo Gala Dalí''), located in Púbol in the Comarques of Catalonia, comarca of Baix E ...
; in 1982, he was named "Marquis of Dalí of Púbol" (spa., "Marqués de Dalí de Púbol").
In fact Salvador Dalí did not live there, he bought the castle for his wife,
Gala, who lived there and granted him to visit her, only when she wanted. After Gala died in 1982 at Púbol where she rests in her crypt, Dalí refused to leave the premises, but he had to be hospitalized, lived at
his museum in Figueres for a while and died in a clinic in
Barcelona in 1989.
The Castle of Púbol is a museum now. It contains many works of art by Salvador Dalí.
Púbol, along with
Cadaqués
Cadaqués () is a town in the Alt Empordà ''comarca'', in the province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain. It is on a bay in the middle of the Cap de Creus peninsula, near Cap de Creus cape, on the Costa Brava of the Mediterranean. It is two-and-a-quar ...
and
Figueres, forms the so-called "Dalinian Triangle".
Populated places in Baix Empordà
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