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Field Trips<br />
La Academia de españa Field Trips<br />
Figueres/empúries. In Figueres, students visit the Dalí Museum, one of the most popular museums<br />
in all of Spain and the burial place of the celebrated surrealist Salvador Dalí. The afternoon is spent in<br />
Empúries, an ancient coastal town on the Mediterranean, which possesses ruins dating back over two<br />
thousand years.<br />
Girona. This walled city dates from Roman times when it occupied a strategic location between the<br />
Pyrenees and Barcelona. It combines narrow, cobbled streets with magnificent monuments, Arab baths,<br />
convents, churches, and a cathedral. Students can visit the Museum of Jewish History, which contains the<br />
world’s finest collection of medieval funerary slabs engraved in Hebrew.<br />
Montserrat. This Benedictine monastery was founded in 880 AD and offers spectacular mountain views.<br />
Montserrat is a national park, and students can take a funicular railway to the top of the mountain where<br />
they can hike among the unusual rock formations and listen to the bells of the abbey. The monastery<br />
also contains a museum that includes paintings by world famous artists, such as El Greco, Carravagio,<br />
Miró, Picasso, and Dalí.