The Great Iron Mine
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IndustryIndustry &Heritage 4 walks European Industrial and Technical showing the industrial heritage Heritage Year of the estuary of Bilbao 2015 Before the titanium came iron Walk 1 Walk 2 El Pontón From the temple of knowledge to the old MINES, MILLS AND Along the Los Caños route INDUSTRY AND RIVER shipyards to the Ribera Market Industrial architecture of the twentieth century From the Area of the Back to Bilbao MERCHANDISE Mines to Harino Panadera IN THE BOTXO New Areas/Classical Ensanche/Old Quarter ASSESSMENT ASSESSMENT IIndustrynIndduusstrtryy 6 VERY INTERESTING 30 INTERESTING ROUTE ROUTE 6.3 km Heritage 8.4 km Walk 3 Walk 4 Larreineta funicular railway Barakaldo. The industrial leader La Arboleda - Zugaztieta IRON: THE RED ONE RIVER, Sestao. The factory city Miners and mines: the BILBAO Portugalete. Fusion of both sides of the river CARD devoured mountain GOLD OF BIZKAIA Ortuella TWO WORLDS Getxo. The mansions of the industrialists EXTENSION 1: This card is your passport to savings when planning your stay in Bilbao; use it for public Mining remains between Kobaron and Pobeña. transport, museum and theatre tickets, ASSESSMENT restaurants, shops and other leisure activities. From Ortuella: 10 km. ASSESSMENT Request it at any tourist information offi ce or on: EXTENSION 2: www.bilbao.net/bilbaoturismo 54 UNMISSABLE El Pobal foundry. 76 UNMISSABLE ROUTE From Ortuella: 10 km. ROUTE 9 km EXTENSION 3: La Encartada 12 km textile factory. From El Pobal: 18 km. Version: MAY 2015. Version one Published by: Bilbao Bizkaia be Basque PRACTICALINFORMATION Content: Rúbrica Printers: Artes Gráficas Munguía, S.L. / Legal Deposit: BI-625-15 106 Comparison between 1863 (before the emergence of extraction and production) and 1910. Comparison between Sestao and Portugalete in 1864 and 1962. You are in a city that has been recognized All of this provides a unique testimony of how the WALKS SHOWING THE internationally as an example of urban city and its surroundings ‘invented itself’ between 4 regeneration. In the last 20 years it has evolved the last third of the nineteenth century and fi rst dramatically from a worn-out industrial third of twentieth century, and provides clues which metropolitan model to a service-oriented urban help us understand the process of ‘reinvention’ INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE OF setting with third generation companies. currently going on, based on the model of city that started in that economic and social explosion. In Under its skin lie the physical remains and fact, the towns along the river saw their populations soul of a city that iron turned into the most multiplied by four in just 40 years (1880-1920). economically important of the Atlantic Arc THE ESTUARY OF BILBAO th (from Porto to Bordeaux) from the 18 century On these walks, you will be able to observe the onwards. heritage of that time, with multifaceted renovations and remains, including proto-industrial, industrial, Walk 4 Industrial Bilbao is to Like other cities in which vitality is a key factor manufacturing and residential architecture, to understanding it, Bilbao and its surroundings iron as contemporary Bilbao infrastructures and civil buildings and cultural are like an onion with different layers; the best facilities. The cultural concept of industrial heritage is“ to the thousands of jobs known are those spaces which are internationally does not only refer to landmarks and buildings; it renowned and the Old Quarter. related to knowledge and also covers all aspects of life around its ability to innovation Beneath that image, however, there are many generate wealth. Walk 3 others, and the one that brings out its most Along with physical remains of the industrial past, idiosyncratic side is that which arises out of its you will see areas away from the beaten tourist track ” industrial character, in an enclave surrounded by which show to a great extent the essence of this city. iron mines that have been worked since Roman In its most famous images there remains a memory times. The high quality of its ore with little and infl uence of the industry which was alive until 30 sulphur, low cost and proximity to a large port Walk 2 years ago and which has profoundly infl uenced the made it an excellent raw material for both the lifestyle of its inhabitants, its demographics, culture forges of Bizkaia and the Bessemer furnaces in and social values. the industrial revolution. These walks do not cover all aspects of the city, or even This was a process of innovation which, from its entire industrial heritage; they are comfortable, the mid-nineteenth century on, thanks to the accessible trips, on foot or in easy public transport, accumulation of capital made in mining activities, which allow you to see a signifi cant percentage of the led to the emergence of emporiums of steel, Walk 1 most important features of this area. energy, fi nance, chemicals, commerce, shipyards, tools and teaching. It gave rise to an intensive This material is complemented industrial network that has continued to this day, by the website which shows other although the most signifi cant productive part graphic materials, links and data disappeared in the 1980s and 1990s. updates: bioiron.info Walk 1 ASSESSMENT ROUTE 6.3 km VERY INTERESTING MINES, MILLS AND “So much Bilbao in the memory...” (Blas de Otero) 01_El Pontón 02_Along the Los Caños route to the Ribera Market 03_From the Area of the Mines to Harino Panadera MERCHANDISE 04_New Areas / Classical Ensanche / Old Quarter Walk 1 IndustryIndustry MINES, MILLS AND Heritage MERCHANDISE G A N D Y T A B S Z GAIARREGAIARR B N E U Í O R A DEO DEPRIT de Epalza IBOLI L R A S HUERTAS DE LA VILLAL I D ONDARROAOND GAIARR I Cementerio Y . A A Colegio R Z O BILINTX H A V Inst.t. B A Esclavas de Begoña . L C M E C A Enseñanzaa MediMMediaa A P O E I . M Ó P P PL. T A L C.P. G S A . N Tanatorio A N QUINTANA L V E M PL. JOSÉ Ú C.C.V. E E LA SALVE E O RRO GUARDIA E N T M D MARÍA F A N I Colegio Público Y PASEO CAMPO VOLANTÍN B. ALONSO . PABLO D ARRIPA D D MAKUA O O O O O sores Campos A I O O Clínica Pío Baroja HOW TO GET THERE I O R R Ayuntamiento N M Virgen I Z A A A PL. A C U A E R í M. AGUIRRE ZAM M IEMB a ERNESTO de VIRGEN DE BEGOÑA Blanca A PLAZA COCHERITO DE BILBAOA M TR. K K K de S L K ERKOREKA U TEGI A A HARO C B MASUSTEGI MASUS- A S Á ÉNEZÉ MIEMBRO DYA i l b a o SENDEJA LA DE C T M By Bilbobus: Line 56 (there are A Mallona L I E R N TA G I R JJI PTE. DEL A NTO N A ENRIQUE E O P . B D N G L E S E Ó SANTA CLARA IBARRETA G F.F JIM S I E S L L U L O ZUBIZURI AYUNTAMIENTO O M I . Ñ PRIM CentralCentraCentrantral L AL I P TORRE A S TRAV. R Sta. lots of stops along the Gran Vía E O M A I T EléctricaEléctricE éctrica A U R I B E ESPERANZA A MAD STA U GOROST. I T A R T ACEBAL I. L E E Cruz O ITURRALDE Ascensores R I DE BEGOÑAZPI 10 MALLONA PRIT R G D V AURREKOETXEA BARANDIARAN ZABALBIDE PL. PL. PÍO . I HEROS S S.M.A. A ANSELMOPINTOR CIRCOCIR AMATEUR G and the Old Quarter) to the end Ayunt. - A I AYERBE BARROETA ALDAMAR VDA. DE EPALZA 1 ALAMEDA NERBIOI BAROJA Aduana ARSUAGA G GUINEA D P M M ER Parque MóvilMóvil PRIM N E ATEGORRI C U PLAZA A E AN T A O RAMPAS DE URIBITARTE U TXAKOLI. O R Ascensor R Z AGUIRRE IB URIBITARTE VENEZUELA S. Ignacio - M B PL. IT E L . I L A PolideportivoPolideporPolidolideportivpor o A ISLETA E P TRV. ITURRIBIDE of the line in La Peña-Abusu E TRAV. PRÍNCIPE R Casco Viejo R U ALICANTEALMERÍA TRAV. ITURRIAGA M A A T T L A E S PS. ARENAL ELIZONDO R T I PL. LUIS C A L ITURRIBIDE S I T E TRAV. C L O A dee TxuTxTxurdinagardindinaga B E I B E P PL. ES ECHEVARRÍA U R R ESTUFA U C TEU I C. P. C PLAZAPLAZPLLAZA D C.P. Miguel Colegio . ARQUITECTO I H L San P SAN VICEN A D FAGOAGA A PL. F. E I Palacio Iturribide MONTE LAUAXETALAUAXELAAUAXUAXXETA I E S. Colegio H. H. Maristas BASTIDA N R A de Cervantes E Virgen O R B Vicente S PL. MÚSICO ECHEVARRÍA Ibaigane T. SANTO MANDOIA I B L Nicolás de Begoña B T I O S.N. ALBACETE LAMEDA RECALDE M PLAZA ARAMBARRI O C.P. BOLAN- Mártir N S TXA N R FIKA P. A . A A ARTETA A Luis Briñaa E B.B. TOMÁS ITURRIBIDE COSM I P U Z AR VILLARÍAS R C.E. ASKAO E Metro: Bolueta (500 m away) O U A BILBAO P MEABE Carmelo S OBISPO A Palacio de E ITURRIBIDE R PL. FELIPA B A T ORUETA TE B PL. MIGUEL ROSARIO C P. IBAR. A EROS X N I R T ZURICALDAY L L R ECHEVARRIETA PL. S. Justicia C.S.CU 262 DE UNAMUNO Begoña U A ERSUNDI E B R A 25 FUF B O DE Ascensor Colegio R A R L V VICENTE PL. A D I L T K B ZUMÁRRAGA E P O R E E A PLAZA Ángeles CONCORDIA P O I JARDINES CAMPA OAO Comandancia I ITU RIAGA C.A.