Dalí Theatre-Museum

In Figueres, the Dalí Theatre-Museum rises from the ruins of the town’s municipal theater, burned in the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) and refashioned as Salvador Dalí’s own stage, opened in 1974. With its egg-topped roofline and Emilio Pérez Piñero’s great dome, the building turns the act of looking into performance, collapsing museum, set, and self-portrait into one. It holds Dalí’s most concentrated legacy—and his tomb—so for many locals it reads as a civic monument to imagination and self-myth.