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Museum Guggenheim Bilbao
Category: Museum in Bilbao
The Guggenheim Museum is situated in city of Bilbao (Basque Country, Spain). It is built alongside the Nervion River, which runs through the city of Bilbao to the Atlantic Coast. The building of museum is spectacular with a facade of glass, titanium and lime stone. "Guggenheim Museо" is a...

URL: http://www.guggenheim-bilbao.es/?idioma=en

Sopelana

Barinatxe Nudist Beach
Category: Beach resort in Sopelana
Barinatxe is a Nudist Beach located on the north coast of Spain, at Sopelana beach near Bilbao (Basque Country). Sopelana can be easily reached by public transport (local train) from Bilbao. The participants there are all completely naked - they are allowed to wear a hat, sunglasses, shoes and socks...

Vitoria-Gasteiz

Vitoria Jazz Festival (10th-16th July)
Category: Events & Festivals in Vitoria-Gasteiz
The Jazz Festival in Vitoria-Gasteiz is held every year in 2nd week of July. It is one of the favourites of music critics, jazz-lovers and jazz-artists everywhere.

URL: http://www.jazzvitoria.com

Donostia-San Sebastian

Kursaal Palace
Category: Modern architecture in Donostia-San Sebastian
Cubes of Kursaal Palace (Kursaal Congress Palace and Auditorium) is situated in city of Donostia-San Sebastian near the Zurriola Beach. The building consists of two translucent glass cubes. Ten thousand translucent glass plates cover the cubes.

Urretxu

Aikur - Bee Museum
Category: Museum in Urretxu
The Bee Museum in Urretxu working since 2007. There are 5 theme areas: mythology and history, apiculture, bee products, bees and organisation, and curiosities.

URL: http://www.aikur.com

Azpeitia

Basque Railway Museum
Category: Museum in Azpeitia
Basque Railway Museum in city of Azpeitia exhibits one of the best railway collections in Europe, with steam, diesel and electric locomotives, tramways, trolleybuses and wagons of all kinds.

URL: http://www.euskotren.es/euskara/museo/03.html

Oiartzun

Geological Interpretation Centre Luberri
Category: Museum in Oiartzun
Luberri center in Oiartzun offers a trip throughout the last thousand million years. It's subject is the geological evolution of the Oiartzun Valley and of the entire Basque Country. The centre exhibits didactic panels in Basque, Spanish, and French, as well as a collection of minerals and fossils.

URL: http://www.luberri.org

Zegama

Interpretation Center of Aizkorri-Aratz Natural Park and Saint James´ Way
Category: Museum in Zegama
In Interpretation Center of Aizkorri-Aratz Natural Park and Saint James`Way in Zegama gives to visitors possibility to learn about the colours, the textures, and the properties of more than 170 different trees.

URL: http://www.egurmuseoa.com

Andoain

Leitzaran Visitor Centre house
Category: Museum in Andoain
The Leitzaran Visitor Centre is located in the Otieta Country Park near Andoain, at the access of the Leitzaran Valley. It makes the visitors aware of the importance of the Leitzaran River protected biotope. The complex houses a Water Interpretation Centre and a Fishing School.

URL: http://www.leitzaran.org

Leintz-Gatzaga

Salt Museum
Category: Museum in Leintz-Gatzaga
The Salt Museum in Leintz-Gatzaga shows the systems used for salt extraction throughout the centuries. Located at the foot of the Dorleta Sanctuary, the museum recovers the salt mine that had worked from the Iron Age to 1972, when it was closed.

URL: http://www.leintzgatzaga.com

Bilbao

Biblbao Museum of Fine Art
Category: Museum in Bilbao
Museum of Fine Art in Bilbao (Museo de Bellas Artes) is hosted in two buildingsnear the park Doña Casilda de Iturizz. In the older building are exhibited works of many great European masters as Quentin Matsys, Dirk Bouts, van Dyck, Jaime Huguet, Bartolomé Bermejo, Serra, El Greco, Zurbarán, ...

Mundaka

Church Santa Catalina
Category: Church in Mundaka

Ibarrangelu

Laida beach
Category: Beach resort in Ibarrangelu
Laida beach in part of Urdaibai Nature Reserve near Ibarrangelu. It is 812 meters-long and 166 meters wide beach (the longest in the Mundaka Estuary) of fine golden sand. The waters are shallow and the beach is ideal for children too.Laida is well equipped - there are lifeguards, beach keepers, par...

Zarautz

Zarautz beach
Category: Beach resort in Zarautz
This beavch is located in Zarautz (Guipuzkoa). It is 2.5 kilometers long and 80meters wide beach with fine golden sands. This is the largest beach in Gipuzkoa.

Azpeitia

Saint Ignatius Fiestas (30th of July)
Category: Events & Festivals in Azpeitia
The St. Ignatius (patron saint of Gipuzkoa and Bizkaia) fiestas in Gipuzkoa are among the most visited in Euskadi (Basque country). Azpeitia is on of the places which must be visit ed in order to feel the great festival atmosphere.The festival is in four days and include:Religious processions, music...

Zumarraga

Church Santa María la Antigua
Category: Church in Zumarraga
Santa Maria de la Antigua chapel is located east of villages of Urretxu and Zumarraga. This hermitage was built in XV-th century. The building is a fine example of religious Folk architecture.

Hondarribia

Hondarribia city beach
Category: Beach resort in Hondarribia
Town of Hondarribia has a beach across the Bidasoa from the touristy housing estate Sokoburu in Hendaye, alongside a mountain called Jaizkibel providing a hilly backdrop to the town. A road leads north-east from the beach area to the Cape Higuer.

Hondarribia

Parish Church of Santa Maria de La Asuncion y del Manzano
Category: Church in Hondarribia
The Parish Church of Santa Maria de La Asuncion y del Manzan in Hondarribia was built on fragments of old walls. It is located in the centre of the town’s historic quarter. The church has a Gothic design with added Renaissance and Baroque touches. It was built with elements used from the ...

Zalduondo

Church of San Saturnino
Category: Church in Zalduondo

Salvatierra

Church of Santa Maria
Category: Church in Salvatierra

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