CavaTravel.com: Travel Info: Figueres, Spain

Plaça del Ayuntament, Figueres

Figueres is at the heart of Catalán wine country, just south of the Pyrenees. It is a small Catalán city, where one is likely to hear a preference for the local language, which provides a sense of venturing into another European region, with its own culture, but with close ties to the Spain one already knows and loves.

Museums / Culture
The Museo Dalí, an entirely unique experience, is the major tourist attraction in Figueres, and serves as a focal point for pedestrian traffic, tours and foreign visitors.

Restaurants
Dine in the heart of the city, at the Plaça del Ajuntament, a cozy rendition of the public plaza from which so many Spanish towns radiate.

Daytrips
Cadaqués » Girona » Barcelona

Region
Catalunya has long been the industrial and financial hub of the Spanish economy, but is also known for its art, architecture, and for the fine wines and cavas that are grown there. The regional language, Catalán, is a romance language as unique, vibrant and distinct as French or Italian, and is proudly guarded and promoted by the locals.

Transportation
Regional trains take travelers to many cities throughout Catalunya, roughly 40 min. to Barcelona; buses will ferry you down to the Costa Brava; you can also enjoy a beautiful drive by renting a vehicle of your own.

Xampanyería: A Memoir of Spain

Nothing easier than getting lost in the ruins of another time.

The cobbles, the asphalt, the air were rich with sea salt. The mountains on the northwestern edge of Barcelona invited morning fogs to hang over the whole city, sinking only reluctantly back to the shoreline. These fogs lifted the sediment of history, daily, into the air, a ritual cleaning. A salty timeless savor would, daily, override the sooty-city residue of industry. For those intimate, empty hours, life itself opened up, became vulnerable, reliant upon our will. We tended to attempt to dwell among the salts.

No matter what my intended destination (many days I would have an insurmountable urge to pass by the Museo Picasso; other days, it was more important to find myself at the port’s edge, watching the world in flux), all streets, every exiting of an art gallery, every callejón or escondrijo, every late café luncheon, would lead me back to the xampanyería. We would sometimes joke that all of the Barri Gótic was a series of compartments of the spirit, all fascinating but exhausting, all begging the loud, unclean serenity of the crowded cava bar.

At four p.m., possibly, definitely within the hour, one could locate Michael or Saint Jerome or Renault, Farola or the Dutchman. Nevertheless, it was always the outside, the persistence of the old places, that would drive us there. It was always an integral part of a more organismal experience, never solely, or statically, ‘a separate peace’. [Full Text]

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Camino por el pasillo abierto que lleva hasta la puerta. Me recuerdo. Recuerdo sin fallos el lugar y el sentido del lugar. Ver el mismo cactus, el encanto de las plantas que llueven sobre los muros, ver la casa, el umbral, la cara y bondad insondable de Gloria, que siempre me cuidaba tan bien, significa una colaboración improbable con el fluír temporal.

Cenamos y hablamos de literatura, de leyenda y de la verdad. Hablamos de ese espacio infinito que corre por entre los nudos y planicies de la biografía a medias.

Me encuentro entre planes, entre mundos, entre variados trayectos de un progreso incierto que se llama vida. El aire tenue y privado está repleto de fantasmas e ideales, preferencias, gustos, y todo lo demás que pueda trascender los cambios cotidianos de la vida... [Texto completo]

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