Bilbao and the Basque Country Travel Guide

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Northern Spain is a misty land of green hills, low russet rooflines, and colorful fishing villages; it's also home to the formerly industrial city of Bilbao, reborn as a center of art and architecture. The semiautonomous Basque Country, with its steady drizzle (onomatopoetically called the siri-miri), damp verdant landscape, and rugged coastline, is a distinct national and cultural entity within the Spanish state.

Bilbao and the Basque Country Hotels

The largely industrial and well-to-do north is an expensive part of Spain, and this is reflected in room rates. San Sebastián is particularly pricey...read more

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Bilbao and the Basque Country Restaurants

Basque cuisine in and around San Sebastián and Bilbao combines the fish of the Atlantic with a love of sauces that's rare south of the Pyrenees—a...read more

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Things To Do in Bilbao and the Basque Country

Northern Spain's Bay of Biscay area, at the western...read more

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Top Reasons to Go to Bilbao and the Basque Country

The Basque Coast: From colorful fishing villages to tawny beaches to Europe's longest surfing wave, the Basque Coast always delights the eye... Read more
Glitzy Guggenheim

Bilbao's Guggenheim, an eruption of light and titanium—described by the late Spanish novelist Manuel Vazquez Montalban as a "meteorite"—has... Read more
Spain's Wine Country

The Ebro River basin has been an ideal habitat for grapevines since pre-Roman times. Rioja wines were first recognized in official documents... Read more

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