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( www.catedraldegirona.org ; adult/under 7yr €5/free, Sun free; 10am-8pm Apr-Oct,
to 7pm Nov-Mar, 10am-2pm Sun & holidays) , through the door marked 'Claustre Tre-
sor', contains the masterly Romanesque Tapís de la Creació (Tapestry of the
Creation) and a Mozarabic illuminated Beatus manuscript, dating from 975.
The fee for the museum also admits you to the beautiful 12th-century
Romanesque cloister , whose 112 stone columns display some fine, if weathered,
carving. From the cloister you can see the 13th-century Torre de Carlemany bell
tower.

Detour:
Castell de Púbol
At La Pera, just south of the C66 and 15km northeast of Girona, the Castell de Púbol (
972 48 86 55; www.salvador-dali.org ; La Pera; adult/under 9yr €7/free; 10am-8pm
mid-Jun-mid-Sep, to sunset rest of yr, closed Jan-mid-Mar & Mon outside high season)
forms the southernmost point of northeast Catalonia's 'Salvador Dalí triangle', other ele-
ments of which include the Teatre-Museu Dalí in Figueres, and the Cadaqués area.
In 1968 Dalí bought this Gothic and Renaissance mansion, which includes a 14th-cen-
tury church, and gave it to his wife, Gala, who lived here until her death.
The castle was renovated by Dalí in his inimitable style, with lions' heads staring from
the tops of cupboards, statues of elephants with giraffes' legs in the garden, and a stuffed
giraffe staring at Gala's tomb in the crypt.
Sarfa buses between Palafrugell and Girona run along the C66.

PASSEIG ARQUEOLÒGIC
Across the street from the Banys Àrabs (Arab Baths), steps lead up into
some heavenly gardens where town and plants merge into one organic master-
piece. The gardens follow the city walls up to the 18th-century Portal de Sant
Cristòfol gate, from where you can walk back down to the cathedral.

Gardens

MUSEU D'ART
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Art Gallery