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Museums Attractions In Zumaia

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Zumaia is a small town in the north of Spain in the Basque Country. The town has two beaches , which are of interest to geologists because they are situated among the longest set of continuous rock strata in the world. Known locally as the flysch they date from the mid-cretaceous period to the present, a time period of over 100 million years. The K-T boundary is present at the Itzurun beach, and fossils can be found, notably of ammonites. The strata stretches along a distance of about 8 km, between the towns/beaches of Deba and Getaria, with Zumaia lying in the middle. The town is also the home/museum of the painter Ignacio Zuloaga. Exhibits include wo...
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  • 2. Cristobal Balenciaga Museum Getaria
    Cristóbal Balenciaga Eizaguirre was a Spanish Basque fashion designer and the founder of the Balenciaga fashion house. He had a reputation as a couturier of uncompromising standards and was referred to as the master of us all by Christian Dior and as the only couturier in the truest sense of the word by Coco Chanel, who continued, The others are simply fashion designers. He continues to be revered as the supreme deity of the European salons. On the day of his death, in 1972, Women's Wear Daily ran the headline The king is dead . Since 2011 the purpose built Museo Balenciaga has exhibited examples of his work in his birth town Getaria. Many of the 1200 pieces in the collection were supplied by his pupil Hubert de Givenchy and clients such as Grace Kelly.
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