Bilbao Travel Guide

Bilbao grew rich on iron ore and shipyards, then traded smoke for titanium curves. The Guggenheim turned the city's face back toward the Nervión, a tidal estuary still rising and falling inland from the Bay of Biscay.

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Plan Your Bilbao Trip

Start in the Casco Viejo's seven streets, then follow the river path down to the Guggenheim.

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Bilbao Neighbourhoods

The Casco Viejo keeps seven medieval streets and the densest pintxos bars. Abandoibarra holds the Guggenheim beside riverside walks; the Ensanche adds grid-plan shopping.

Bilbao Itineraries

One day covers the old town, the Guggenheim and a pintxos crawl. Add a second day for the estuary and the coast.

Day Trips From Bilbao

Bilbao makes an easy base for the Basque Country. San Sebastián, the Rioja wine villages and the Bizkaia coast all sit within a day trip.

The day-trip range, from Bilbao out to Pamplona A true-scale plot of 24 real coordinates read from OpenStreetMap, north upwards, about 183 km across. Bilbao is the ringed point and every other point is one day-trip destination, numbered to match the list below. The drawn shapes are real OpenStreetMap geometry: the Nervion/Ibaizabal estuary and its tributaries, the Bay of Biscay coastline, the France frontier, and the main roads running across the region. 11 points sit close enough to a neighbour to overlap, so they have been nudged apart just far enough to stay readable, with a dashed line back to the true position. Distances in the list are straight lines between the mapped coordinates, not road distances and not journey times. Vizcaya Bridge, mapped point 11 San Juan de Gaztelugatxe, mapped point 1212 Gernika, mapped point 99 Mundaka, mapped point 1313 Getxo, mapped point 22 Vitoria-Gasteiz, mapped point 1717 La Rioja Wine Country, mapped point 1919 Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve, mapped point 1111 Biarritz, mapped point 2222 San Sebastian, mapped point 2020 Santurtzi Cruise Terminal, mapped point 33 Ondarroa, mapped point 1616 Bakio, mapped point 88 Sopelana Beach, mapped point 44 Lekeitio, mapped point 1515 Sopelana, mapped point 55 Plentzia, mapped point 66 Armintza, mapped point 77 Balmaseda, mapped point 1010 Orduna, mapped point 1414 Laguardia, mapped point 2121 Pamplona, mapped point 2323 Santander, mapped point 1818 Bilbao
  • North is up. The bar shows 25 km. The thin lines are rivers and main roads.
  • Coastline, water and rivers: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL

Getting Around Bilbao

A riverside tram, a metro and an airport bus cover most needs. Most tours meet near the old town or the Guggenheim.

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