I am going to start this year with an article about Txilida leku.Txillida leku, is a large area of gardens and woodland and a renovated farmhouse, where the sculptor Eduardo Chillida Juantegia distributed a large sample of his work. It is located in Hernani (Gipuzkoa) and it is a great place to visit for those tourists who want to discover The Basque Country.
Txillida Leku offers a combination of scupture and art by the Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida in natural surroundings. It is amazing to enjoy art while walking in the gree fields. The museum also has a farmhouse wich it has been renewed.
The sculptor, as I said before, was called Eduardo Chillida. He was born in San Sebastian the 10th of january in 1924 and he died in the 19th of august in 2002. At the age oh 18 he started studing at the School of Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Madrid but some years later he quit the archictecture to play football. He played for the Real Sociendad football team as a goalkeeper but he had an injury and he had to quit playing football and started with his real vocation, the archictecture. He emigrated to Paris and he started designing sculptures with plaster. In 1950 he married with Pilar Belzunce in Donosti. After, they went to Paris to live. They had 8 children.
On August, 2002 he died in his house in igeldo in San Sebastian.
If you like the art and the nature you can't loose the oportunity to visit TXILLIDA LEKU!
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