Bilbao

Along this street to Alameda Mazarredo, accompanied by bay window, we arrive at the Isozaki Towers, Isozaki Atea, that invite us to become immersed in…

The convent of the Incarnation was built between 1513 and 1526, and is made up of a church and a cloister. Its construction was made…

The University of Deusto was designed by Francisco de Cubas and built in 1886 for the Society of Jesus. It was at that time one…

At the very heart of the Casco Viejo [Old Town] are its traditional Siete Calles or Seven Streets. Somera is at the head of the…

The seventeenth century Parish Church of St John and St John occupies, along with the Basque Museum, the site which in its day was an…

The Cathedral-Church of Bilbao is dedicated to St James the Apostle, the patron saint of Bilbao since 1643. Built in the fifteenth century, in a…

San Vicente church is an example of sixteenth century Basque Gothic architecture, also known as “Late Gothic”. This church was probably built on the site…

Designed by Ignacio de Ibero, it was built in 1756, and is noted for its striking Baroque facade topped by two towers. It was a…

The Zabálburu family, who lived at the nearby Mena Palace, gave the land and paid for part of the work of this neo-Gothic church, designed…

Built at the end of the 15th century, the Church of San Antón is not Bilbao’s oldest, but it is one of the most typical.…

The Sacred Heart Church is the place where, in the late nineteenth century, the Jesuits built their new residence with a church attached. It is…

This building was designed by the architect Luis Aladrén, at the end of the 19th century. Eclectic in style, the formal characteristics of this building…

Known popularly as the Plaza Nueva of Bilbao, this square is one of the most interesting neoclassical squares in the Basque Country, where this kind…

The Plaza de Federico Moyúa, better known as Plaza Moyúa or Plaza Elíptica, is one of the most important neuralgic centers of Bilbao. This place,…

Built by Ramón de la Sota, shipping magnate and founder of Euskalduna company, whom the British government granted a knighthood to for his assistance with…

The Montero House, Casa Montero, in Alameda Recalde, is another remarkable example of modernism, in a city where the tastes of the bourgeoisie opted for…

The “fosteritos”, as the Metro entrances are known, encourage us to enter into the interior of the city: between glass and steel, concrete and light.…

The architecture of Bilbao’s El Ensanche district, and of the Gran Vía in particular, is noted for its eclecticism. Modernist façades intermingle with functional buildings…

Don Diego López de Haro, Lord of Biscay, founded the town in 1300 and still watches over it from the top of the monolith, surrounded…

Chávarri Palace is a beautiful example of Bilbao architecture in the late nineteenth century, and it is the current offices of the central government delegation…