Salvador Dali's Dovecote at Portlligat - Cadaques, Girona, Spain
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N 42° 17.581 E 003° 17.161
31T E 523578 N 4682350
Salvador Dali's dovecote at Portlligat, the house he shared with his wife Gala in Cadaqués, Girona, Spain. El colomar de Salvador Dalí a Portlligat, la casa que compartia amb la seva dona Gala a Cadaqués, Girona, Espanya.
Waymark Code: WM186K5
Location: Cataluña, Spain
Date Posted: 06/09/2023
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Chickilim
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Salvador Dali's dovecote at Portlligat, the house he shared with his wife Gala in Cadaqués, Girona, Spain. As all buildings at the House Museum, whitewashed plaster covers the structure except for its red roof tiles. A narrow, slight trapezoidal, two-story square tower with inwardly canted walls, it is set on the hillside south of the garden wall and house. Three of the sides each offer a dozen pigeonholes while the fourth - which faces north toward the Costa Brava coast and includes a doorway - has ten. Pitchfork-like perches protrude from three façades, save for the south. The plain wood poles, resembling crutches the surrealist artist painted in many of his works, have weathered and warped over the decades and droop a bit. A giant white egg sculpture, also a much-used Dalí symbol, tops the tower.


[CAT] El colomar de Salvador Dalí a Portlligat, la casa que compartia amb la seva dona Gala a Cadaqués, Girona, Espanya. Com tots els edificis de la Casa Museu, el guix emblanquinat cobreix l'estructura, excepte les teules vermelles. Una torre quadrada estreta i lleugerament trapezoïdal de dos pisos amb parets inclinades cap a l'interior, es troba al vessant del turó al sud del mur i la casa del jardí. Tres dels costats ofereixen cadascun una dotzena de colomars, mentre que el quart -que mira al nord cap a la costa de la Costa Brava i inclou una porta- en té deu. De tres façanes sobresurten perxes en forma de forca, excepte pel sud. Els pals de fusta llisa, semblants a crosses que els artistes surrealistes van pintar en moltes de les seves obres, s'han deteriorat i deformat al llarg de les dècades i s'han caigut una mica. Una escultura gegant d'ou blanc, també un símbol de Dalí molt utilitzat, damunt la torre.

(If known) Approximately how many pigeonholes in the dovecote?: 46

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