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On a walk with the surrealist genius -
It's important that all people have fun with DalÃ's things, ¿or not?
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A genius in La RamblaThe painter Salvador Dalà (1904-1989) is intimately related with the town of Figueres, in Girona. However, Barcelona was the scene of many of the anecdotes he starred in. And, specifically, La Rambla. His obsession to be seen made this Barcelona artery an irresistible catwalk to which he went accompanied by great personalities from the world of art and culture. The cafés, the monuments or the Gran Teatre del Liceu did not escape the interest of the genius.
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DalÃ
and the theaterDalÃ's uncle, Anselm Domènech, was the owner of the Library Verdaguer, located opposite the Liceu. The shop would close in 1959. The theater opera was one of the artist's usual appointments on premiere days. A cousin of his, José MarÃa Serraclara, would be in 1904 the promoter of the monument to the dramatist Serafà Pitarra (located in the lower part of La Rambla). As a child, Dalà went to the Sala Mercè, a cinema whose original decoration was carried out by Antoni GaudÃ. This place would influence the artist when conceiving his Gala Dalà Theater-Museum. -
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talk showThe social gatherings at the cafés of La Rambla had an honor guest: Salvador DalÃ. The most animated were conducted in the disappeared Café de la Rambla (corner with Canuda street), Lyon d'Or (in the basement of the Main Theater) or in the Restaurant Café Royal. He also liked to be photographed at the feet of monument to Columbus, a character who inspired one of his paintings in 1958. Among the acts that took place on the occasion of the centenary of the genius' birth, it highlighted the Dalà exhibition Afinidades Electivas, in the Sala Verdaguer of the Palau Moja.
