My husband and I will be visiting Spain in early March. We have already planned all of our sites in Madrid and in Barcelona and a day trip to Montserrat, we have time for one other day trip out of Barcelona and are wondering which would be better – seeing a couple of towns on the Costa bravo like Tossa de Mar, or going to Figueroa to see the Dali museum?
Posted by
Chicago
1180 posts
If you have a car, you might be able to do both. Museum in the morning and
then coastal town for lunch and wandering around after.
Also, if your goal is just to see some Dali, there is another smaller museum
in Pubol, which is a fair bit closer to Barcelona than Figueres.
Posted by
733 posts
Totally up to you.
How big of a Dali fan are you? The home/museum is pretty trippy and fun, but it takes a while to get to the museum and back. I'm glad I went but it ended up gobbling the better part of a whole day via train and walking
The coast is beautiful. So if you'd rather spend a day smelling sea air and eating shellfish, that's a great choice too.
The previous poster mentioned doing both. If you have a car, that would certainly trip your transit time to Figueres so maybe that would work.
But in early March, I would guess that you could decide the night before how you felt about either or both. I don't think you'd need to plan ahead unless that means specifically getting a rental car just for this day.
Posted by
Sweden + Barcelona
4270 posts
FYI early March might still be a bit early for the tourist season for many of the towns of the Costa Brava, much will be still closed down for the season. I passed through Tossa in late Feb last year while house hunting and it was a ghost town
Posted by
OP
Texas
2 posts
Thank you all for the information. We will not have a car so we would be making the trip via bus or train or hiring guide. It sounds like early March. It may be too chilly to enjoy the beach towns and it may be that the Teatro Dali might be a better option.
Posted by
Barcelona (Catalonia)
3351 posts
Our winters/early springs in Catalonia are normally sunny and blue skies, albeit probably not warm enough for you to swim, unless you're one of those savages coming from the Arctic Pole, are you listening, Nordics? And you, Canadians? LOL! Seriously now, this is meant to say that a getaway visiting the coastline in March can also be a very pleasant one.