SAN SEBASTIÁN

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Eduardo Chillida
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San Sebastián has everything, with tourism all year round.
Three wonderful beaches right in the city, surrounded by mountains and varied natural landscapes, a stone’s throw from the centre, round off the range of things to do.
Traditional Basque frontón court games hitting the ball with the hand or with a basket, trainera rowing races, ancient country sports, the so-called Herri Kirolak, or Real Sociedad as the spearhead of football in Gipuzkoa province, and the large surfing community are all examples of how sport marks the character of the city.
The international film and jazz festivals, the San Telmo museum, the Chillida Leku museum and large-format urban works by artists such as Chillida or Oteiza, together with musical traditions and local folklore, make this city a very complete cultural attraction.
The city’s own skyline displays the coexistence of tradition with innovation.
}This can be seen in the architecture of the city’s different neighbourhoods while walking through its streets, shopping or enjoying the range of things to do for tourists.
The same goes for food and drink. The bars and restaurants offer a fusion of the new and the traditional, based on the quality of the local ingredients and their painstaking preparation, but also on the meticulous way they are treated.
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The hotels’ history and character are closely linked to art, through the surname Chillida.
Chillida Leku is a unique museum, itself created as a large work of art.
In it art merges with nature in an entirely natural way. The sculptures fit into the landscape as if they had always been part of it.
In the garden, beeches, oaks and magnolias rub shoulders with monumental steel and granite sculptures in a perfect dialogue with their setting.
Buy your tickets to Chillida Leku Museum here.