Despite his success as a trader in Mexico and a banker in Bordeaux and Paris, José Javier Uribarren never forgot his hometown. With his enlightened bourgeois mentality, was clear that education was the
the overall development of the country, but also to to improve the lives of their neighbours. And seconded by his wife, Maria Jesús Aguirrevengoa, provided Lekeitio with schools: boys' and girls',
of nautical... A philanthropy not without interest that we will track guided by the historian Juan Manuel González Cembellín.