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Bilbao in northern Spain is a city that really became a tourist destination after the opening of the Guggenheim Museum, but here is also so much more to see. You can look forward to interesting sights, beautiful surroundings and local gastronomy such as the delicious pintxos of the Basque Country, the small pieces of bread with mixed cold cuts.
On a trip to Bilbao, the old town, Casco Viejo, is the place to start. It is a neighborhood with narrow streets, cozy squares and colorful buildings. There are of course many cafes that you can enjoy between sights with the city cathedral, other churches and the Archaeological Museum as some of them.
Bilbao’s landmark is Frank Gehry’s famous museum building with the exciting outer curves where the Guggenheim Art Museum is located. A visit here is almost a must in the city, where you can also visit other museums. It can be, for example, the Museo Euskal about the culture of the Basque Country.
The Basque Country is also an area worth exploring from Bilbao. Here are breathtaking coastlines, beautiful national parks and many interesting cities. The most famous is San Sebastián, also known as Donostia. This is where you will find the iconic beach, Playa de la Concha.
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of contemporary and modern art, which is also Bilbao’s world-famous landmark. The museum was designed by the Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry and it was inaugurated in 1997 by the Spanish King Juan Carlos I after a great popular event.
It was the Basque government that in 1991 proposed to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation that it would establish a Guggenheim museum to be built in Bilbao’s dilapidated port area, which had once been the city’s main source of income, and with a new museum could once again become a place that would make Bilbao known and create growth in the city.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation chose Frank Gehry as their architect, and they encouraged Gehry to design something daring and innovative, and he did. The randomness of the curves on the building’s exterior was designed to catch the light, and the interior was designed around a large and bright atrium overlooking the Nervión River through Bilbao.
When the museum opened in 1997, it was hailed as one of the world’s most spectacular buildings. It was described as one of the architectural masterpieces of the 20th century and an example of deconstructivist style. The building was made of stone, glass and the titanium that is the museum’s distinguishing feature. There are many separate galleries in the large museum, and from the outside the divisions can be seen, among other things, in the swirling organic forms.
At the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao you can see works and installations by contemporary artists and works by Basque artists. The museum’s exhibitions change continuously, and the place hosts, for example, thematic exhibitions and displays from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation’s large collection. There are also some permanent works such as La materia del tiempo by Richard Serra.
The Museo Bellas Artes is Bilbao’s old and fine art museum, which opened in 1914. It is one of the most visited museums in the Basque Country, and this is very understandable when you experience the institution’s fine collections, which are among the richest in Spain outside of Madrid. The museum houses a valuable and quite extensive collection of Basque, Spanish and European art from the Middle Ages to the present day.
During a visit to the art museum, you can enjoy paintings by old masters such as El Greco, Cranach, Sofonisba Anguissola, Murillo, Goya, Luis Paret, Van Dyck, Ruisdael and Bellotto. You can also see 19th century works and modern art by, among others, Gustave Doré, Sorolla, Mary Cassatt, Paul Gauguin, Henri Le Sidaner, James Ensor, Jacques Lipchitz, Peter Blake, Francis Bacon and Richard Serra.
The museum was founded in 1908, and the current classicist museum building was designed by the architects Fernando Urrutia and Gonzalo Cárdenas and built for the purpose in 1945. However, the museum’s collections continued to grow after construction, and the building has been extended several times since 1945.
Casa Consistorial de Bilbao is the Spanish name for Bilbao’s town hall, which was built in beautiful neo-baroque in the years 1883-1892 according to the drawings of the city architect Joaquin Rucoba. For the richly ornamented exterior, Rucoba was inspired by the public architecture of the French Third Republic. The building consists of a main axis, on which the main balcony and three arches with eight columns are located, and at the top a bell tower crowns the building.
On the facade you can see, among other things, reliefs of five prominent figures in Bilbao’s history. They are the founder Diego López V de Haro, the cardinal Antonio Javier Gardoqui, the admiral Juan Martínez de Recalde, Tristán de Leguizamón and the economist Nicolás de Arriquibar. There are also sculptures of two maceros and two heralds flanking the building, and on the main staircase are two sculptures representing law and justice.
Inside, three rooms stand out as the most interesting. These are the reception hall/salón de recepciones, the plenary hall/salón de plenos and the lobby/vestíbulo. The decoration of these rooms is like the exterior eclectic style of the Town Hall, and this is seen with the neo-Moorish inspiration of the reception hall and the neo-Renaissance features of the other two rooms. A number of artists from both Bilbao and the rest of Spain participated in the decoration of the interior.
The current building is the city’s fourth town hall since Bilbao’s founding. The first town hall was built in 1535, but was destroyed by floods in 1553. A new town hall was built on the same site, but it suffered the same fate in 1593. In the 17th century, town hall number three was inaugurated and it was used until the late 1800s century, where growth, industrialization and new infrastructure meant that the current Casa Consistorial was realised.
Mercado La Ribera is a food market located in an atmospheric market building, which is one of the largest of its kind in Europe. The market in Bilbao dates back to the 14th century, and from 1840 the individual stalls began to be covered. The current market building extended the Mercado La Ribera and it opened in 1929 following the rationalist drawings of the architect Pedro de Ispizua.
At the market, there are stalls selling various products within fresh produce. There are, among other things, fishmongers, butchers and greengrocers, and in part of the market you can buy local agricultural products. There are also cozy cafes and restaurants where you can simply enjoy the atmosphere while consuming tasty food or drink.
Museo Vasco is a museum where you can learn more about the Basque culture, which naturally characterizes the Basque Country in the border area between France and Spain. At the museum there are countless museum objects and different themes. The museum’s original name was the Basque Archaeological, Ethnographic and Historical Museum, and it tells about the general areas for the exciting exhibitions.
The museum opened in 1921 on the ground floor of the baroque cloister of the old Colegio de San Andrés, which belonged to the Jesuits until their expulsion from Spain in 1767. Over the years, the museum’s collections grew and it spread to the rest of the cloister. In the permanent exhibitions you can see, among other things, archeology from Vizcaya, weapons, furniture from the 18th century and the art of ceramics and textiles.
Teatro Arriaga is the name of Bilbao’s opera house. The beautiful theater building was built in 1890 in the neo-baroque style according to the design of the architect Joaquin Rucoba. The theater is named after the composer Juan Crísóstomo Arriaga, nicknamed the Spanish Mozart.
The theater is one of Bilbao’s most important cultural scenes, and the building itself stands as one of the city’s most remarkable. When it opened in 1890, the theater replaced an earlier theater building, the Teatro de la Villa, which had been on the same site since 1834.
Akzuna Zentroa is Bilbao’s former grain exchange, Alhóndiga Municipal de Bilbao, which opened in 1909 in the building designed by Ricardo Bastida. In the 1970s, the commercial activities moved to a new building, thereby leaving Alhóndiga Municipal. In the years that followed, several proposals emerged for everything from demolition to new uses of the stock exchange building.
In 1994, it was decided to refurbish the stock exchange as a cultural and event building. The redesign was carried out by the French artist Philippe Starck in collaboration with Thibaut Mathieu. Akzuna Zentroa opened in 2010, and behind the beautiful, old facade opens a modern space with many facilities, and you should especially notice the individually decorated columns.
Plaza Nueva is one of the central squares in Bilbao’s old town, called Casco Viejo. The square was laid out in a monumental neoclassical style in 1821. In the following years, the encircling buildings with elegant neoclassical arcades were erected.
With the identical buildings and palm trees in the corners, the square appears as an elegant urban space, to which there is only access through some of the arcades. The main building originally housed the government of Biscay, and today it houses the Euskaltzaindia, the Royal Academy of the Basque Language.
Museo Marítimo is Bilbao’s maritime museum, and it is an interesting museum where, through exhibitions, the area’s maritime history and traditions are portrayed and brought to life in an exciting way.
In addition to exhibitions about shipping, you also get an impression of significant parts of Bilbao’s history and development. Among other things, there are many ship models at the museum, which is located under a bridge on the site of a former shipyard. The outdoor area displays various ships available in a historic and now drained harbor basin.
Museo Arqueológico is the name of the archaeological museum in Bilbao. Here, through the museum’s collections and exhibitions, you can learn about Bilbao’s long history through various finds and themes from the beginning of man in the region to today’s modern society.
The current museum opened in 2008, and in addition to the exhibitions as a museum, the institution also has the purpose of conserving and restoring archaeological finds from excavations in the area.
Parque de Doña Casilda Iturrízar is Bilbao’s largest park and is a lovely place for some strolls. In the park, there are fine facilities with plantings, ponds, fountains and other things that attract many of the city’s citizens. The green area was laid out in its time as an English landscape garden.
The park is named after Casilda Iturrízar, who was a Spanish philanthropist and businesswoman from Bilbao. Iturrizar sought to help the most disadvantaged citizens of the city by using her wealth for charity, and she also donated the land for the establishment of the park.
The Iglesia de San Antón is a beautifully situated church that was built from 1478 as a major reconstruction of an earlier church that had been consecrated in 1433. The extension was done in the contemporary Gothic style and the new Iglesia de San Antón was consecrated in 1510. The church is dedicated to Anthony the Saint, who was an Egyptian monk in the 4th century and who is today a saint in the Catholic Church.
Over time, the church has been destroyed several times due to floods and battles in the city, but it has been rebuilt each time with different changes. The most obvious is the facade, which was reconstructed in the Renaissance in the 16th century, and it thereby differs from the otherwise primarily Gothic style. However, the tower hat is also different, as it originates from the 18th century baroque.
You can see a walk in the streets around the Iglesia de San Antón, and here you can also see the Puente de San Antón bridge that crosses the river Nervión. In its original version, the bridge was built in 1318, but the current one is a reconstruction from 1937. The two buildings form a beautiful building ensemble, which can be recognized on Bilbao’s city coat of arms, where both bridge and church are shown.
The Catedral de Santiago is Bilbao’s cathedral, and it was given a status in 1950. At that time, Bilbao was established as a bishop’s seat, and therefore a cathedral was needed. The choice fell on the city’s primary parish church, believed to have been built in the 1300s and 1500s. The history of the church may go back further to the time when there was a fishing pier here, but this is not known for sure.
The cathedral, like the parish church, is dedicated to Jacob, who was one of Jesus’ disciples. This is because the church was one of the stops on the northern pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela. The architectural style is mixed, but Gothic dominates the 15th-century building, and the church tower is in later Neo-Gothic.
Estación de Abando is a railway station building that opened in 1870 in the neighborhood of Abando, which gave its name to the station. After many years of use, Estación de Abando was newly built in 1948, and as the city’s main railway station, it is continuously being expanded to, for example, be a terminal for AVE high-speed trains.
The main attraction of the station is the station’s impressive glass mosaic, which both shows various sights in the city and scenes from Bilbao’s daily life. The mosaic is 15 meters wide and 10 meters high, and it was created in 1948 by Jesús Arrechubieta after designs by Miguel Pastor Veiga.
Funicular de Artxanda is a cable car that takes locals and tourists from Bilbao’s street level up to the Artxanda ridge, where there is a park, eateries and excellent views of Bilbao, among other things.
The first plans for a track to Artxanda appeared in 1901, but it took until 1915 before the current track could be inaugurated. The length of the course is 770 meters with 226 high points along the way. The trip takes three minutes and there is a maximum gradient of approximately 45%.
Puente de la Salve is a bridge that was inaugurated in 1972 as the first cable-stayed bridge in Spain. It crosses the river Nervión at a height of 23.5 metres, and its length is just under 250 metres. It was Juan Batanero who designed the bridge, which was supposed to relieve traffic to the northern quarters of the northern Spanish city.
After its opening, Puente de la Salve had the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao as a neighbor, and on the occasion of the museum’s 10th anniversary, Daniel Buren’s work Red Arches/Arcos Rojos was installed. With the characteristic arches, Daniel Buren transformed the bridge’s original pylon into a contrast to the silver-gray titanium exterior of the Guggenheim Museum. Arcos Rojos has since become one of Bilbao’s landmarks.
The Zubizuri is an arch bridge that spans the Nervión River in central Bilbao. The name Zubizuri means the white bridge, and it is also the color of the bridge, which is known for its shape and its designer.
It was the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava who designed the bridge, which opened in 1997. The special thing about it is that the pedestrian area over the bridge goes in an arch over the river with an opposite arch over the bridge itself.
Puente de Vizcaya is a suspension ferry, which is a structure that can be mistaken for a bridge. A suspension ferry is a transport connection where a platform is suspended under a bridge girder and where the platform can be moved from one end to the other. Over time, very few suspension ferries have been established, as they were only built in places where an ordinary bridge would block traffic on the water, and where there was no room for long ramps for a high bridge.
Puente de Vizcaya connects the towns of Potugalete and Las Arenas at the mouth of the river Nervión, which was precisely a busy and important traffic artery that should not be stopped with a bridge. The suspension ferry was built in 1893 as the first of these transport bridges in the world, and it is still in operation with the ability to carry cars and passengers across the river on the transportable deck that forms the platform. Puente de Vizcaya is included in UNESCO’s list of world cultural heritage.
The transport of cars and passengers across the river takes one and a half minutes, and you can get across both day and night. It is a special experience, and the same is true just by looking at the crossing from the river bank. Elevators have also been installed in each of the towers of the Puente de Vizcaya, allowing you to walk across the river on top of the girder. From here there is a beautiful view of the river and the area.
Santander is a city that is the capital of the region of Cantabria along the Spanish north coast. It is known for certain from 1068, and Alfonso VIII of Castile granted rights to Santander in 1187. It was a time when the city consisted of two separate parts, each surrounded by a wall, and there was a bridge between the parts, which was on either side of a stream.
Santander was for many years an important city for Castile, as it had a natural harbor where trade took place with America. The city grew over the centuries, but it was hit by several disasters, with explosions in the port of Santander in 1893 and 1894 and a fire that ravaged large parts of the city in February 1941.
Gaztelugatxe is a dramatically situated island on the coast of the Basque Country. The island is about 270 meters long and up to 80 meters wide. The mainland is approximately 200 meters away, and from here a stone bridge has been built to the island, which gives access to it. If you cross the stone bridge, which is now a dam, you can go up to a church and the former monastery of San Juan de Gaztelugatxe by 237 steps carved into the rocks.
The church was founded in 1053, and the complex probably served as a refuge for the Knights Templar in the 1200s and 1300s. The monastery was inhabited by hermits, and it was attacked and looted several times in history; among others in 1593 by English privateers under the leadership of Francis Drake. In recent years, Gaztelugatxe has become a popular excursion destination and tourist attraction due to the island’s enchanted location and romantic atmosphere.
San Sebastián is a city in the Basque Country in northern Spain, and it is also known as Donostia–San Sebastián. Humans have lived in the area for thousands of years, but settlements were founded by the Romans in the first centuries AD in the area that today forms the old town. However, San Sebastián did not formally became a city before 1181.
It developed but burned down almost completely in 1489 and was then rebuilt with stone houses. France occupied San Sebastián from 1719-1721 and again in 1813. In 1863, the city walls were demolished, making way for many new districts and thereby a larger city.
Biarritz is an elegant and well-visited seaside resort located on the French Atlantic coast close to the border with Spain. Its history as a resort started with the 19th century’s increasing tourism to popular towns along the water, and in 1840 the Biarritz town council took the initiative to attract tourists to the well-located town.
The city became particularly well-known when Empress Eugénie of France built a summer palace on the coast from 1854. The palace and the presence of the imperial family spurred the construction of fashionable hotels, casinos and luxury goods stores, and the summer palace itself was also converted into a hotel and casino after it was sold in 1880.
Eugénie’s castle burned down in 1903, but was only lavishly rebuilt, and today it stands as the Hôtel du Palais in the first row to the Atlantic Ocean. Along the water are lovely beaches, and the beaches, the sea and the waves made Biarritz the first place in Europe where surfing took place.
In Biarritz you can enjoy the view of the sea, the beautiful hotels and also take a look at the center of the cozy town. There are also several activities and museums such as the Aquarium de Biarritz, located in an art deco building from 1933, the Cité de l’Océan and the Musée Asiatica, which is a museum of Asian art. There are also several beautiful viewpoints on the rocks by the town. For example, you can go to the Rocher de la Vierge or the area by the Phare de Biarritz lighthouse.
Parque Natural de Gorbea is the name of the largest natural park in the Basque Country. The park is inland and contains a beautiful and varied nature with, among other things, cascading waterfalls and beautiful mountains that reach up to 1,482 meters in height with the top of the mountain Gorbea.
The park covers an area of karst landscapes and is known for many breathtaking hiking trails and viewpoints. The landscape in the Parque Natural de Gorbea is very varied, and you can walk around everything from rough rock faces to gentle and rolling pastures. In the park there are also beautiful beech and oak forests, and one of the well-known places is the 100 meter high waterfall Gujuli.
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Overview of Bilbao
Bilbao in northern Spain is a city that really became a tourist destination after the opening of the Guggenheim Museum, but here is also so much more to see. You can look forward to interesting sights, beautiful surroundings and local gastronomy such as the delicious pintxos of the Basque Country, the small pieces of bread with mixed cold cuts.
On a trip to Bilbao, the old town, Casco Viejo, is the place to start. It is a neighborhood with narrow streets, cozy squares and colorful buildings. There are of course many cafes that you can enjoy between sights with the city cathedral, other churches and the Archaeological Museum as some of them.
Bilbao’s landmark is Frank Gehry’s famous museum building with the exciting outer curves where the Guggenheim Art Museum is located. A visit here is almost a must in the city, where you can also visit other museums. It can be, for example, the Museo Euskal about the culture of the Basque Country.
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Teatro Arriaga is the name of Bilbao’s opera house. The beautiful theater building was built in 1890 in the neo-baroque style according to the design of the architect Joaquin Rucoba. The theater is named after the composer Juan Crísóstomo Arriaga, nicknamed the Spanish Mozart.
The theater is one of Bilbao’s most important cultural scenes, and the building itself stands as one of the city’s most remarkable. When it opened in 1890, the theater replaced an earlier theater building, the Teatro de la Villa, which had been on the same site since 1834.
Akzuna Zentroa is Bilbao’s former grain exchange, Alhóndiga Municipal de Bilbao, which opened in 1909 in the building designed by Ricardo Bastida. In the 1970s, the commercial activities moved to a new building, thereby leaving Alhóndiga Municipal. In the years that followed, several proposals emerged for everything from demolition to new uses of the stock exchange building.
In 1994, it was decided to refurbish the stock exchange as a cultural and event building. The redesign was carried out by the French artist Philippe Starck in collaboration with Thibaut Mathieu. Akzuna Zentroa opened in 2010, and behind the beautiful, old facade opens a modern space with many facilities, and you should especially notice the individually decorated columns.
Plaza Nueva is one of the central squares in Bilbao’s old town, called Casco Viejo. The square was laid out in a monumental neoclassical style in 1821. In the following years, the encircling buildings with elegant neoclassical arcades were erected.
With the identical buildings and palm trees in the corners, the square appears as an elegant urban space, to which there is only access through some of the arcades. The main building originally housed the government of Biscay, and today it houses the Euskaltzaindia, the Royal Academy of the Basque Language.
Museo Marítimo is Bilbao’s maritime museum, and it is an interesting museum where, through exhibitions, the area’s maritime history and traditions are portrayed and brought to life in an exciting way.
In addition to exhibitions about shipping, you also get an impression of significant parts of Bilbao’s history and development. Among other things, there are many ship models at the museum, which is located under a bridge on the site of a former shipyard. The outdoor area displays various ships available in a historic and now drained harbor basin.
Museo Arqueológico is the name of the archaeological museum in Bilbao. Here, through the museum’s collections and exhibitions, you can learn about Bilbao’s long history through various finds and themes from the beginning of man in the region to today’s modern society.
The current museum opened in 2008, and in addition to the exhibitions as a museum, the institution also has the purpose of conserving and restoring archaeological finds from excavations in the area.
Parque de Doña Casilda Iturrízar is Bilbao’s largest park and is a lovely place for some strolls. In the park, there are fine facilities with plantings, ponds, fountains and other things that attract many of the city’s citizens. The green area was laid out in its time as an English landscape garden.
The park is named after Casilda Iturrízar, who was a Spanish philanthropist and businesswoman from Bilbao. Iturrizar sought to help the most disadvantaged citizens of the city by using her wealth for charity, and she also donated the land for the establishment of the park.
The Iglesia de San Antón is a beautifully situated church that was built from 1478 as a major reconstruction of an earlier church that had been consecrated in 1433. The extension was done in the contemporary Gothic style and the new Iglesia de San Antón was consecrated in 1510. The church is dedicated to Anthony the Saint, who was an Egyptian monk in the 4th century and who is today a saint in the Catholic Church.
Over time, the church has been destroyed several times due to floods and battles in the city, but it has been rebuilt each time with different changes. The most obvious is the facade, which was reconstructed in the Renaissance in the 16th century, and it thereby differs from the otherwise primarily Gothic style. However, the tower hat is also different, as it originates from the 18th century baroque.
You can see a walk in the streets around the Iglesia de San Antón, and here you can also see the Puente de San Antón bridge that crosses the river Nervión. In its original version, the bridge was built in 1318, but the current one is a reconstruction from 1937. The two buildings form a beautiful building ensemble, which can be recognized on Bilbao’s city coat of arms, where both bridge and church are shown.
The Catedral de Santiago is Bilbao’s cathedral, and it was given a status in 1950. At that time, Bilbao was established as a bishop’s seat, and therefore a cathedral was needed. The choice fell on the city’s primary parish church, believed to have been built in the 1300s and 1500s. The history of the church may go back further to the time when there was a fishing pier here, but this is not known for sure.
The cathedral, like the parish church, is dedicated to Jacob, who was one of Jesus’ disciples. This is because the church was one of the stops on the northern pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela. The architectural style is mixed, but Gothic dominates the 15th-century building, and the church tower is in later Neo-Gothic.
Estación de Abando is a railway station building that opened in 1870 in the neighborhood of Abando, which gave its name to the station. After many years of use, Estación de Abando was newly built in 1948, and as the city’s main railway station, it is continuously being expanded to, for example, be a terminal for AVE high-speed trains.
The main attraction of the station is the station’s impressive glass mosaic, which both shows various sights in the city and scenes from Bilbao’s daily life. The mosaic is 15 meters wide and 10 meters high, and it was created in 1948 by Jesús Arrechubieta after designs by Miguel Pastor Veiga.
Funicular de Artxanda is a cable car that takes locals and tourists from Bilbao’s street level up to the Artxanda ridge, where there is a park, eateries and excellent views of Bilbao, among other things.
The first plans for a track to Artxanda appeared in 1901, but it took until 1915 before the current track could be inaugurated. The length of the course is 770 meters with 226 high points along the way. The trip takes three minutes and there is a maximum gradient of approximately 45%.
Puente de la Salve is a bridge that was inaugurated in 1972 as the first cable-stayed bridge in Spain. It crosses the river Nervión at a height of 23.5 metres, and its length is just under 250 metres. It was Juan Batanero who designed the bridge, which was supposed to relieve traffic to the northern quarters of the northern Spanish city.
After its opening, Puente de la Salve had the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao as a neighbor, and on the occasion of the museum’s 10th anniversary, Daniel Buren’s work Red Arches/Arcos Rojos was installed. With the characteristic arches, Daniel Buren transformed the bridge’s original pylon into a contrast to the silver-gray titanium exterior of the Guggenheim Museum. Arcos Rojos has since become one of Bilbao’s landmarks.
The Zubizuri is an arch bridge that spans the Nervión River in central Bilbao. The name Zubizuri means the white bridge, and it is also the color of the bridge, which is known for its shape and its designer.
It was the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava who designed the bridge, which opened in 1997. The special thing about it is that the pedestrian area over the bridge goes in an arch over the river with an opposite arch over the bridge itself.
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