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Since 1907 this Hotel follow its brilliant term. Every house of surroundings have changed, but there is still this elegant BUILDING, history of a moment (3 stories), surviving portrait of a time where ladies and gentlemen came from far away lands to enjoy the landscape, the beach and their appreciated waters. Diverse centers of Talasoterapia still remain, throughout the Basque coast. Their singular presence celebrates that, at least, some excellences of the past, resists the test of time. There is a parking inside the enclosure, for guests.

After numerous intents of making front of the waves of the sea during two centuries, from the XVII century with the celebrated architect Vauban, always failed for reasons financial mainly, toward the end of the XIX, when is consolided the transformation of the walk; for where before the train circulated, with the development and fame of the sea bathrooms, concluding the walk until the hill (neighborhood Santa Bárbara) toward 1932. The Hotel of the Golf, owes their name to that because of the Golf was next to it. It's erected between 1903 and 1905 as neo-Basque palace. Deployed in fan, with their protected beautiful front of the western wind, it was designed by the architect François-Joseph Cazalis, that resided in Baiona.

	In these images, among the years 40 and 50. In the following years it is already configured the current layout, like it's appreciable up. This Hotel remains, in this way, as an elegant souvenir of one century ago, in one of the current most attractive walks in the Basque coast.