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Things to do in Bilbao, Basque Country: The Best Architectural Buildings
Travelers generally come to Bilbao to see the Guggenheim—some for the art inside, but many for the amazing building itself. The Fine Arts Museum and the Basque Museum may not have been designed by Frank Gehry, but are worth a visit, and you can catch international opera stars at the Palacio Euskalduna.
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1. Torre Iberdrola 360
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5.0 based on 80 reviews
Torre Iberdrola is the tallest building in Bilbao and northern Spain, with 115 meters high, inaugurated in 2012. This emblematic tower not only serves as an office for several companies, it also has a valuable vantage point on the 25th floor, where you can enjoy of a spectacular panoramic view of the city.
2. Palacio de Congresos y de la Musica Euskalduna
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4.5 based on 335 reviews
Reviewed By javiercard2017 - Bilbao, Spain
This is one of the most relevant buildings of what they call "The new Bilbao". It was built next to the river in the place where a well known naval factory stood and now thanks to its design has become a new icon in the city.
3. Azkuna Zentroa
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4.5 based on 1,443 reviews
Azkuna Zentroa is the centre for art and culture located right in the heart of Bilbao and is housed in one of the most emblematic buildings of the city, the former municipal wine exchange market. Refurbished and restored by Philippe Starck, Azkuna Zentroa has a diverse cultural programme where art, knowledge, design, science, new technologies and literature converge, as well as a varied physical activity offering. A multipurpose and contemporary centre where disciplines, contents and the general public are interrelated, which increases the cultural level of the general public and contributes to the enrichment of Bilbao and its internationalisation.
Reviewed By radub - Cluj-Napoca, Romania
It's a modern structure inside a monumental old front walls, with a large public area with modern art, coffee bar, cinema, a municipality cultural center, and an amazing terrace restaurant on top east floor.
4. Isozaki Atea
5. Estacion Abando Bilbao
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4.0 based on 194 reviews
Reviewed By observer2011 - Leeds, United Kingdom
Abando is the (RENFE) National Railways station in Bilbao and the platforms are 2 escalators up from the concourse. As train stations go (for catching trains) this is nothing at all special but it has one outstanding feature. At the city end the huge single span roof ends in magnificent stained glass gable (with a central clock) depicting scenes with Bilbao & Basque themes. This work appears on picture postcards and in souvenir city guides. (The roof of the lobby of the Basque Parliament House in Gernika, though more recent, is very much in this same style.) Well worth a special trip just to see it.
6. Iglesia San Jose
7. La Salve zubia
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4.0 based on 136 reviews
Reviewed By VadimM67 - Murmansk, Russia
After visiting Bilbao, I asked myself why did La Salve like more than the Calatrava bridge? Probably because it doesn`t look like a separate bridge, but as a single complex with the Guggenheim Museum. But this is an illusion. The bridge was built a quarter of a century earlier than the Museum - in 1972, to relieve automobile traffic. Engineer Juan Batanero.used advanced solutions for the first bridge in Bilbao built after the Civil war. He used a system of steel cables to distribute the load and a huge metal Board. A difficult task for Batanero was to maintain the navigability of the Nervión river at this point. The engineer raised the bridge for this purpose by 23 meters, building an Elevator on the right Bank so that pedestrians could descend to the embankment. By the way, the efforts of the engineer were completely in vain, ships now do not come here, unloading at the mouth of the river Nervion. But there is a memory of how they came here and at the site of the bridge said "Salve!", referring to the Madonna de Begogna visible from here on the hill. IInterestingly, but the bridge was renamed recently in 2016. It used to be called the bridge of the Spanish princes. The illusion of an organic connection with the Museum was achieved by the French architect Daniel Bouren, who proposed in 2006 to build a curved portico of scarlet color on the site of the metal arch. The scarlet color of the object called arches emotionally unloads the center of Bilbao. This is not Spain, not only in the sense that supporters of independence write, but also in the sense of the weather. The Bay of Biscay casts leaden clouds over the city. It is constantly overcast, humid and windy. Unlike Catalonia, Castile, and especially Andalusia. But looking at the scarlet arch of Bouren, you feel like you are in Andalusia... Somewhere in Granada.
8. Palacio Chavarri
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4.0 based on 45 reviews
9. Casa Lezama Leguizamon
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4.5 based on 3 reviews
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