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Casco Viejo
It's a worthwhile stroll through Bilbao's atmospheric old town, with its worn, grungy façades, bars, restaurants and shops. At the heart of the Casco are Bilbao's original 'seven streets', Las Siete Calles. Mid-morning there's a bit of a rout as delivery vans compete for space. It's all part of the quarter's happy vibe.
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Catedral de Santiago
This gothic cathedral has a splendid Renaissance portico, itself once the scene of medieval markets and civic meetings.
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Euskal Museoa, Museo Vasco
The Museum of Basque Archaeology, Ethnography and History, to give it its full title, is a well-executed display of archaeological findings from the Basque region, enhanced by exhibits about traditional working practices and domestic life. The museum is housed in a fine old building, at whose centre is the peaceful cloister that was part of an original 17th-century Jesuit College. In the cloister is the Mikeldi Idol a powerful pre-Christian, possibly Iron Age, symbolic figure.
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Funicular de Artxanda
For a breathtaking vista of Bilbao take the three-minute ride up Artxanda hill on the Funicular. The base station in Plaza Funicular can be reached from the pleasant northside river walk that links the Paseo del Arenal to the Guggenheim. It can also be reached from the Uribitarte Eusko Tran stop by crossing the exuberant Zubizuri Footbridge, creation of architect Santiago Calatrava.
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Museo de Bellas Artes
Museo de Bellas Artes A mere five minutes from the Museo Guggenheim is Bilbao's Fine Arts Museum, a more than satisfactory complement to the Guggenheim.
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Museo Guggenheim
Opened in September 1997, Bilbao's Museo Guggenheim lifted modern architecture and Bilbao into the 21st century - with sensation. It boosted the city's already inspired regeneration and stimulated further development.
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Open Air Gallery, Museo Guggenheim
One of the joys of the Guggenheim experience is to take a quiet wander around the outside of the building, appreciating the extraordinary imagination behind its design and catching the different colours reflected by the titanium tiles, limestone and glass. Lying between the glass buttresses of the central atrium and Ría de Bilbao is a simple pool of water that emits at intervals a mist 'sculpture' by Fuyiko Nakaya.
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