The spider elephants
Dalí's impossible legs in open bronze.
Diliff — CC BY-SA 3.0 · Unknown authorUnknown author — CC0 · Hernán Piñera from Marbella — CC BY-SA 2.0 · Bernardo Baggio — CC BY 2.0
Yes — signed original bronze casts from Dalí's numbered editions, municipally purchased — not tourist copies. Their open display is a town trusting its visitors' manners — so gaze, don't climb; the bases carry the signatures.
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The Avenida del Mar is Spain's strangest open museum: a short marble promenade joining old town to sea — and along it ten original Salvador Dalí bronzes standing in open air without glass or visible guards: elephants on spider legs, a seated Quixote, the surreal woman of drawers — true Dalí free among passers-by and palms. The collection, a municipal purchase of the eighties, made Marbella keeper of the world's largest Dalí street display — a detail of the town's quiet wealth: you pass it to the beach and pass a museum. Twenty minutes of gazing and photographing connect your walk from Orange Square to the promenade — and night lights the bronze into a small theatre.
Dalí's impossible legs in open bronze.
The famous surrealism with no glass between you.
Avenida del Mar, 29602 Marbella