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BIBAT: Museo Fournier de Naipes y Museo de Arqueología de Álava

Vitoria-Gasteiz, Cuadrilla de Vitoria-Gasteiz, Álava

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BIBAT: Museo Fournier de Naipes y Museo de Arqueología de Álava

Monument · Vitoria-Gasteiz, Cuadrilla de Vitoria-Gasteiz, Álava

The Bendaña palace, from 1525, has housed since their merger the BIBAT complex ('two in one' in Basque), which brings together the Álava Archaeology Museum and the Fournier Playing Card Museum, with the collection of playing cards assembled by Heraclio Fournier, founder in 1868 of the city's playing-card factory, one of the most important of its kind in the world.

Palacio de Bendaña, 1525; fábrica Fournier fundada en 1868

Photo: Guyletsbuild (CC0)

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