page_title: Kursaal Congress Centre and Auditorium
section_title: Placement: K Plot
hierarchical_section_title: Kursaal Congress Centre and Auditorium / History / Placement: K Plot
caption_attribution_description: Español: Edificio del Casino Gran Kursaal, en San Sebastián (España) Euskara: Kursaal kasino zaharra. Donostia, Euskal Herria. Unknown
context_page_description: The Kursaal Congress Centre and Auditorium is a complex comprising several spaces: a great auditorium, many-use halls and exhibition halls. It was designed by Spanish architect Rafael Moneo, and is located in Donostia-San Sebastián. It opened in 1999.
  It consists of several spaces, including the 1,800-seat concert hall, the Palacio de Congresos-Auditorio Kursaal, and is the home of the biggest film festival in Spain, the San Sebastian International Film Festival, in existence since 1953.
context_section_description: 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, but it 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.
caption: The historic Kursaal casino, next to the river's mouth
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