Getaria

Getaria needs 1 day: touring the town, built on a mouse-shaped peninsula jutting into the sea, and visiting the Balenciaga Museum, dedicated to the fashion designer born here, in a single day. June-September brings the best Cantabrian weather. It's mid-to-upper priced for its gastronomic fame, with several restaurants specializing in grilled fish by the harbor. It's the birthplace of Juan Sebastián Elcano, the first navigator to complete a circumnavigation of the globe after Magellan's death, and of Cristóbal Balenciaga, one of the 20th century's most influential fashion designers, and its txakolí wine, grown on the slopes facing the sea, has become a benchmark product of Basque cuisine.