Cities in Spain: Bilbao
Bilbao City, or Bilbo (Bilbao, Bilbo) – the largest settlement and administrative center of the province of Biskaya, as well as one of the largest ports of the country. The city is located 30 km from the coast, at the mouth of the River Nervion, however, its suburbs and the port area go to the Biscay Bay. In antiquity, at the place of Bilbao there was a fishing settlement, however, the modern city was founded on June 15, 1300 by Don Diego Lopez de Aro, the ruler of the Biscay. Rich and modern, with an attractive business center, surrounded by gloomy slums and extinguishing smoke factors, Bilbao is now in the process of recovery after the real collapse of its traditional industry, which was noted the end of the XX century. Suddenly, the following famous steel mills and shipyards are actively rebuilt into conference centers and luxury condominiums, cargo stations are planted with trees, and chaos of coastal docks and warehouses turns into boulevards and shopping centers. New metro, airport and celebration of the seven anniversary of the founding of Bilbao (2000 g.) Gave a new impetus to the development of the city, which, in combination with the well-known Basque friendly, promises to turn it into one of the best tourist centers on the northern coast of Spain in the near future.
The main point of attraction of Bilbao is the famous WWW.Guggenheim-Bilbao.ES Guggenheim De Arte Contemporaneo Museum (Museo Guggenheim De Arte Contemporaneo, the largest collection of Solomon Guggenheima Foundation). The dominant of the pier in front of the University of Deusto Building was built in 1997 according to the original project of Frank Gary and now contains the richest collection of objects of art of the XX century. The museum is open from Thursday to Sunday (in July and August, it also works on Mondays) with 10.00 to 20.00, the entrance ticket is worth 10.5 euros, special exhibitions – 12.5 euros, for children under the age of 12 years old. To the west of the museum there are extensive areas of old docks and the warehouses of the Abandoybarra district, also actively tunable in accordance with the new concept. Here you can already visit the new Zubarte shopping center, WWW.Museobilbao.COM Museum of Fine Arts, Park Dona Casilda Nurris (DO&# 241; A Casilda Iturrizar) and the nearby stadium, the Maritimo De Bilbao Museum (an impressive collection dedicated to the history of the port and shipping), as well as the last shipyard of the city, rebuilt into the modernist conference center EUSKALDUNA.
Casco Vieho (the Old Town) lies on the eastern bank of the river and retained the most important elements of the historic heritage of Bilbao – the building of the mayor’s office, pompous mansions of the Neturi district, Gothic Basilica Cedral de Santiago (XV in.), elegant arcades of Plaza Nueva, Church of San Anton (XVII in.), Old El-Arenal district, Church of San Vicente (XV-XVII centuries.) With its picturesque garden and statue of the Virgin Mary, the ARRIAGA Theater opposite the old railway station and the same old cafe La Concordia on the picturesque street of Navarre. Honored Glory enjoys the Art Museum of Eusal-Miseo-Bilbao (Moseo-Basco, an extensive collection of Basque Archeology, Ethnology and History), located in the complex of the old monastery of San Andres on the Square of Michel de Unubuno. Part of his collection was carried out in 2007 into a separate meeting of the new Museum of Archeology Biscayan, located in the building of the old forest station. At the exit from Casco-Vieho, it is necessary to visit the old market of art nouveau-mercado de la ribera on the banks of the river, which offers the best (and the freshest!) Sea gifts and is considered one of the largest covered markets in Europe. Many bars, cafes and restaurants working that are rare for Spain are concentrated in Casco Viejo.00-2.thirty.
If you go through the river on the subisuri bridge (Zubizuri) and go through three quarters to Plaza Funicular, where the start of the Cable Car Arcund (1931 g.), you can climb the top of the mountain (770 m), offering a beautiful view of the city, the airport and the ocean. You can go down on foot, passing through the picturesque outdoors, where the luxury of old mansions are combined with the fiction of a poor citizens who decorate their homes sometimes very unusual. The Old Quarter of Ground (Guetxo) lies at the mouth of the neron and can show the guests many palaces and luxurious mansions built by the prosperous inhabitants of Bilbao at the end of the XIX – early 20th century, as well as the bridge, built by the Eiffel project and the Binding of the Incho with the worker area of Portuguese.
15 km from the center of Bilbao to the north lies the popular beach area of the district area (there is also "wild" The beach, and in the area of Playa de Ametara there is a nudist region). 30 km south-east of Bilbao begin the lands of the Natural Park of Urikola, covering the slopes of the green mountain range Durangesado (the highest point – Mount Amboto, 1330 m).
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