Púbol is a small town located in the municipality of
La Pera, in the
comarca (county) of
Baix Empordà, in the province of
Girona,
Catalonia
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,
Spain
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.
The artist
Salvador Dalí
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol (11 May 190423 January 1989), known as Salvador Dalí ( ; ; ), was a Spanish Surrealism, surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, ...
lived at the
Castle of Púbol for a while, from 1982 to 1984; he was named Marquis of Dalí of Púbol because of that (spa., "Marqués de Dalí de Púbol").
In fact, Dalí had originally bought the castle for his wife,
Gala
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, who lived there from 1970 to 1982, and allowed him to visit her, only with her written permission. After Gala died in 1982 at Púbol, where she rests in the crypt, Dalí moved to the premises for the first time; he would finish there his last painting, in 1983. In 1984, he was severely injured in a fire that started when he was sleeping, and had to be hospitalized. He moved afterwards to
his museum, in
Figueres, where he would spend his final years, until he died in a clinic in
Barcelona
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in 1989.
The
Castle of Púbol is a museum now. It contains many works of art by Salvador Dalí. Púbol, along with
Cadaqués and
Figueres, forms the so-called "Dalinian Triangle".
[''Museus i Centres de Patrimoni Cultural a Catalunya'', Barcelona, Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya, 2010, p. 94 (Catalan)]
References
Populated places in Baix Empordà
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