{"id":292,"date":"2009-09-04T12:12:46","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T12:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/?p=292"},"modified":"2009-09-04T12:12:46","modified_gmt":"2009-09-04T12:12:46","slug":"figueres-girona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/09\/04\/figueres-girona\/","title":{"rendered":"Figueres Girona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Capital of the Alt Empord\u00e0 district of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/girona-map.html\" target=\"_blank\">Girona<\/a>, on the Costa Brava, Spain, the market town of Figueres has a population of approximately 40,000, and will be forever linked to the painter Salvador Dali (1904-89) who was born and died there. One of the most visited locations in the town is the Teatre-Museu Dali, which was founded by the artist himself in 1974 and now boasts the largest collection of his works together with those of other artists. Another famous son of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/figueres.html\" target=\"_blank\">Figueres<\/a> was Narcis Monturiol i Estarriol, who is claimed to be the inventor of the submarine. Also worth visiting in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/figueres-weather.html\" target=\"_blank\">Figueres<\/a> is the Toy Museum (Museu de Joguets), the Sant Ferran castle (eighteenth century), the parish church of Sant Pere and the old Jewish Quarter. Figueres is situated just off the AP-7 motorway between the provincial capital Girona and the French border, the closest airport is at Girona some 40 kilometres away. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needahandspanishproperties.com\/figueres.html\" target=\"_blank\">Figueres Map<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capital of the Alt Empord\u00e0 district of Girona, on the Costa Brava, Spain, the market town of Figueres has a population of approximately 40,000, and will be forever linked to the painter Salvador Dali (1904-89) who was born and died there. One of the most visited locations in the town is the Teatre-Museu Dali, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42,18],"tags":[292,171,309],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}