Location: Province of Vizcaya
Top Things to do in Province of Vizcaya
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What to do and see in Province of Vizcaya, Basque Country: The Best Bridges
Biscay (Basque: Bizkaia; Spanish: Vizcaya) is a province of Spain located just south of the Bay of Biscay. The name also refers to a historical territory of the Basque Country, heir of the ancient Lordship of Biscay. Its capital city is Bilbao. It is one of the most prosperous and important provinces of Spain as a result of the massive industrialization in the last years of the 19th century and first half of the 20th century. Since the deep deindustrialization of the 1970s, the economy has come to rely more on the services sector.
Restaurants in Province of Vizcaya
1. Puente Colgante Vizcaya
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 1,768 reviews
Reviewed By tek_m_l - Melbourne, Australia
We took the metro from the city to Areeta station and took the the Gondola over to Portugalete. It is a 35 minute ride on the metro from the city to Areeta and then another 7 minute walk from the station to the bridge. It is an engineering marvel considering this was built back in 1893 and was the first mechanical transporter bridge in the world. The ingenuity of Alberto de Palacio to design this transporter to join both banks of the river while still allowing transport ships to pass through unhindered to the port of Bilbao is just brilliant. Portugalate is a nice quaint town to visit as well. It is also quite a hilly town and sections of it had escalators to assist the residents in navigating their daily activities around town. Very cool.
2. Puente de la Muza
3. Puente Zubizuri
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 1,765 reviews
Reviewed By KarlsChilling - Tokyo, Japan
Great place for sunrise and sunset viewing Location separates Guggenheim museum and Artxanda shopping area from Old Town Gets windy and slippy so hang on tightly to that traditional Basque beret you just bought...
4. San Anton Bridge
5. La Salve zubia
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4.0 based on 136 reviews
Reviewed By VadimM67 - Murmansk, Russia
After visiting Bilbao, I asked myself why did La Salve like more than the Calatrava bridge? Probably because it doesn`t look like a separate bridge, but as a single complex with the Guggenheim Museum. But this is an illusion. The bridge was built a quarter of a century earlier than the Museum - in 1972, to relieve automobile traffic. Engineer Juan Batanero.used advanced solutions for the first bridge in Bilbao built after the Civil war. He used a system of steel cables to distribute the load and a huge metal Board. A difficult task for Batanero was to maintain the navigability of the Nervión river at this point. The engineer raised the bridge for this purpose by 23 meters, building an Elevator on the right Bank so that pedestrians could descend to the embankment. By the way, the efforts of the engineer were completely in vain, ships now do not come here, unloading at the mouth of the river Nervion. But there is a memory of how they came here and at the site of the bridge said "Salve!", referring to the Madonna de Begogna visible from here on the hill. IInterestingly, but the bridge was renamed recently in 2016. It used to be called the bridge of the Spanish princes. The illusion of an organic connection with the Museum was achieved by the French architect Daniel Bouren, who proposed in 2006 to build a curved portico of scarlet color on the site of the metal arch. The scarlet color of the object called arches emotionally unloads the center of Bilbao. This is not Spain, not only in the sense that supporters of independence write, but also in the sense of the weather. The Bay of Biscay casts leaden clouds over the city. It is constantly overcast, humid and windy. Unlike Catalonia, Castile, and especially Andalusia. But looking at the scarlet arch of Bouren, you feel like you are in Andalusia... Somewhere in Granada.
