Paseo de las Grandes Villas

The Paseo is the unofficial name given to Getxo's seafront – made up of Muelle de Las Arenas Areeta and Calle Marques de Arriluce e Ibarra. The "Villas" part of the name is a reference to the extravagant mansions that pepper the route, many of which date to the town's heyday in the early 20th century. Two to look out for are the 1911-built Casa Cisco and turreted, early-20th-century Palacio Lezama-Leguizamón.

The southern end of the seafront is marked by a monument to Evaristo Churruca, a 19th-century engineer who worked on the town harbor.

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