‘Patatas bravas’ are one of the most traditional and popular tapas outside of Spain. The reason for such success lies in the potatoes, cut into small irregular pieces and then fried in olive oil until they are crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, but above all in the sauce that accompanies them: salsa brava, with as many versions as there are cooks. With onion, flour, sauce and red pepper, but without tomato; with tomato sauce and chilli, or; even in its less orthodox version, with mayonnaise, ketchup and Tabasco, the fact is that salsa brava is, first of all, a hot sauce. Hence its name and also its origin: the spicier the potatoes, the more beer was needed to

  The Ampurdan town of Figueres (Gerona) gave life to Salvador Dalí (1904-1989), and in reward, Dalí gave life to Figueres. The favour is returned. A stroll through this town in the far northeast of Catalonia, at the heart of the Costa Brava, is itself a tribute to the international master of surrealism, who lived his childhood, adolescence and his last days there. The walk begins in calle Monturiol, where the most iconic artist of Spanish history was born. They call it the street of the geniuses. The street not only saw the birth of Dalí, but also other geniuses like Monturiol, the inventor of the submarine, and the poet Fages de Climent. It was also the