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San Sebastián - Kursaal, Spain

Venue Address: Kursaal, Spain - (Show Map)
San Sebastián - Kursaal, Spain
San Sebastián - Kursaal, Spain

Kursaal Congress Centre and Auditorium - Wikipedia

Kursaal Congress Centre and Auditorium. Placement: K Plot[edit]. Discarded projects[edit]. Beginning and ending of the works[edit]. External links[edit].

The complex includes a large auditorium, multi-purpose halls, and exhibition halls. It was designed in Spain by Rafael Moneo, a Spanish architect. It was opened in 1999.

It is home to the largest film festival in Spain, San Sebastian International Film Festival. This event has been going on since 1953.

The Great Kursaal was an elegant palace built in 1921, incorporating a casino, a restaurant, a cinema theater, complementary rooms and an 859-seat theater, placed in front of the Gros beach, and next to the mouth of the Urumea river. Part of the interior, including the main hall, was designed by Victor Eusa. The entire building was pulled down in 1973. An empty plot (later called K Plot) was freed. The absence of any architectonic structure in such a privileged site for so many years was remarkable.

A competition was held to replace the old palace. The complexity of the winning project meant that it was not built.

A new project proposal was submitted in 1972. After a few changes to the design, building work was started in 1975, but after the perimeter wall was complete and the foundations in place, works was halted. The plot of land then passed from private hands (as the Great Kursaal had been private) to public hands, so a public consortium was created for the purposes of constructing a new building.