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
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Bilbao and the Basque Country Restaurants
Basque cuisine, Spain's most prestigious regional gastronomy, derives from the refined French sensibility about cooking combined with a rough-and-tumble...read more
Things To Do in Bilbao and the Basque Country
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Bilbao and the Basque Country Experiences
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Explore the Basque coast: From colorful fishing villages to tawny beaches, the Basque Coast always delights the eye.... Read more
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The concentration of celebrated chefs around San Sebastián is so dazzling that food is a natural rallying point here. There are famous... Read more
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The Abandoibarra project covers nearly a full square mile along the Nervión estuary. Formerly occupied by docks, warehouses, and shipyards... Read more
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In The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway describes the Pamplona encierro (bull running) in anything but romantic terms. Jake Barnes hears the rocket... Read more
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The Ebro River basin has been an ideal climate for grapevines since pre-Roman times. Rioja wines were first recognized in official documents... Read more
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On Monday, April 26, 1937—market day—the town of Gernika, 33 km (20 mi) east of Bilbao, suffered history's second terror bombing... Read more
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