History of Villa Itsaso<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>19th century villa turned into a museum<\/h2><\/div>This villa, now restored as a small hotel, embodies in its architecture and rural setting a unique period and atmosphere representative of Basque historical, social, and cultural development.<\/p>\n
It is the first Neo-Basque villa, built at the end of the 19th century during the height of European regionalism rooted in Romanticism and undoubtedly in response to the profound identity crisis triggered by the abolition of the fueros (chartered rights) of 1876.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
![\"Old](\"https:\/\/hotelvillaitsaso.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/fotografia-antigua-villa-siglo-xix-scaled.webp\" "\\"Old")
<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>![\"Ram\u00f3n](\"https:\/\/hotelvillaitsaso.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ramon-adan-de-yarza-scaled.webp\" "\\"Ram\u00f3n")
<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Built in 1883 by the geologist Ram\u00f3n Mar\u00eda Ad\u00e1n de Yarza and conceived as a summer house, this was the era when tourism was emerging, practiced by the English on the southern coast of France (which we call Iparralde, considering it the northern Basque Country). It was a time of therapeutic sea bathing and sunbathing; of spas\u2026 and, of course, the bourgeois atmosphere and industrialization. <\/p>\n
Obviously, the hotel requires a different kind of comfort than that conceived in the 19th century, but we wanted to maintain the large, open, and well-lit spaces that inspired its original layout.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
19th century villa turned into a museum<\/h2><\/div>This villa, now restored as a small hotel, embodies in its architecture and rural setting a unique period and atmosphere representative of Basque historical, social, and cultural development.<\/p>\n
It is the first Neo-Basque villa, built at the end of the 19th century during the height of European regionalism rooted in Romanticism and undoubtedly in response to the profound identity crisis triggered by the abolition of the fueros (chartered rights) of 1876.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Built in 1883 by the geologist Ram\u00f3n Mar\u00eda Ad\u00e1n de Yarza and conceived as a summer house, this was the era when tourism was emerging, practiced by the English on the southern coast of France (which we call Iparralde, considering it the northern Basque Country). It was a time of therapeutic sea bathing and sunbathing; of spas\u2026 and, of course, the bourgeois atmosphere and industrialization. <\/p>\n
Obviously, the hotel requires a different kind of comfort than that conceived in the 19th century, but we wanted to maintain the large, open, and well-lit spaces that inspired its original layout.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
This villa, now restored as a small hotel, embodies in its architecture and rural setting a unique period and atmosphere representative of Basque historical, social, and cultural development.<\/p>\n
It is the first Neo-Basque villa, built at the end of the 19th century during the height of European regionalism rooted in Romanticism and undoubtedly in response to the profound identity crisis triggered by the abolition of the fueros (chartered rights) of 1876.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Built in 1883 by the geologist Ram\u00f3n Mar\u00eda Ad\u00e1n de Yarza and conceived as a summer house, this was the era when tourism was emerging, practiced by the English on the southern coast of France (which we call Iparralde, considering it the northern Basque Country). It was a time of therapeutic sea bathing and sunbathing; of spas\u2026 and, of course, the bourgeois atmosphere and industrialization. <\/p>\n
Obviously, the hotel requires a different kind of comfort than that conceived in the 19th century, but we wanted to maintain the large, open, and well-lit spaces that inspired its original layout.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>