Dali Planet #174:
Plaza de Gala i Salvador Dali
There are today, of course, many places in Figueras and Cadaques that are attached, in varying degrees, to the the Dali legend. After his death much of the talk about Dali the Fascist was drowned out by the clamour for tourist dollars, and the late “Avida Dollars” remains the main draw in his Catalonian homeland.
In Figueras’ Plaza de Gala i Salvador Dali today, visitors sip coffee in the shade of three truck-tire columns created by Dali, each one topped by a statue of the great French painter and sculptor Ernest Meissonier, who Dali admired so much. When they’re ready to proceed, tourists follow a kitschy trail of cardboard cutouts of Dali that mark the way to other points of interest. The photos above show Gala and Dali in the 1940s, in fencing mode and expanding on cat’s cradle in New York.
