09.00 – 18.00 hrs (by bus)

Figueres is the capital of the comarca (district) of Alt Empordà, in the province of Girona, Catalonia. The town is the birthplace of Salvador Dalí, and houses the Teatre-Museu Gala Salvador Dalí, a large museum designed by Dalí himself that participants will discover on this occasion.

The heart of the museum was the building that housed the town's theatre when Dalí was a child, and where one of the first public exhibitions of young Dalí's art was shown. The old theater was bombed in the Spanish Civil War and remained in a state of ruin for decades until Dalí and the mayor of Figueres decided to rebuild it as a museum dedicated to the town's most famous son in 1960. The museum opened in 1974 and houses the single largest and most diverse collection of works by Salvador Dalí. It also houses a small selection of works by other artists collected by Dalí, ranging from El Greco to Marcel Duchamp.

After lunch, participants will reach Girona, a city of monuments where numerous structures from the Roman era to today bear witness to the fact that people have settled there for centuries. Two rivers - the Ter and the Onyar - run through the city,and its most commanding architectural landmark is the

Cathedral, with its spectacular front steps and the widest gothic nave in Europe, which rises up beside one of the most singular of urban spaces, El Call, the old Jewish quarter. The city puts on its best face beside the Onyar River, where tall, pastel-coloured buildings from 19th century rise above the water.