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...known throughout Spain for its signature shell-shaped beach, Playa de La Concha, and its exquisite culinary tradition. Less well-known is its breathtaking coastline, but if you're in the area, don't miss a walk along it. Start at the gigantic glass cubes of Rafael Moneo's Kursaal Convention Center, then cross the adjacent Kursaal Bridge, turn right toward the Paseo Nuevo (New Promenade), and leave the Old Quarter behind. The almost 1-km-long Paseo meanders between stately cliffs and churning sea; locals come on windy days and "play" - outrunning waves that splash high into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Walk Of The Town | 2/29/2004 | See Source »

Last week, a brilliant blue neon sign and the suspenseful whirr of roulette wheels heralded the opening of San Marino's casino, temporarily quartered in the Kursaal, the republic's one concert hall. There was a quiet champagne party for 300 local officials and well-heeled visitors. Three dozen croupiers (imported from Italy) smoothly took charge of the casino's five roulette and two baccarat tables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAN MARINO: Bolshevism In Yellow Gloves | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

Rightist Spain last week staged an exhibit of captured, foreign-manufactured guns, tanks and airplanes in the sumptuous Grand Kursaal Theatre of San Sebastian, Spain's beautiful Bay of Biscay summer resort. The exhibit showed brand-new, up-to-date arms, including a 1938 Russian anti-aircraft piece, Swedish anti-tank guns, warplanes of Russian and Czechoslovak manufacture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Visual Evidence | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

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