Truly Truly unique purchases uniqueShopping With Basque flavour • Shopping experiences to suit all tastes • Traditional or avant-garde but always unique purchases • Sights you cannot miss • What to bring home You will love TO SHOP Bilbao Bizkaia Card Basque corner Basque experience Basque design Truly unique Authentic shops 6 Sweets from Biscay Gourmet Markets Shopping Bizkaia Eskutik You will be thrilled TO VISIT Bilbao Guggenheim Urdaibai Bilbao Old Quarter Santa Catalina Lighthouse Bilbao Azkuna Zentroa Flysch of Uribe Bilbao Gran Vía Pozalagua Cave 26 Bilbao San Mamés Gorbeia Natural Park Bizkaia Bridge and Salto del Nervión Waterfall San Juan de Gaztelugatxe Urkiola Natural Park This card offers savings and convenience during your stay in Bilbao Bizkaia, applying to public transport and tickets to museums, shows, restaurants, shops, and other leisure spaces. Ask for it at any tourist office or at: PRACTICALINFO www.bilbaobizkaiacard.com Addresses, telephone numbers, links... find everything you need Issue: February 2020. First edition Publisher: Bilbao Bizkaia be Basque 50 Production: Bell Comunicación Tourism brochure photos: Bilbao Tourism archives, Bizkaia Tourism, Basquetour, Hazi, Bell, Gonzalo Azumendi, Pedro Muñoz, Quintas Photography, Gemma Arrugaeta, Mitxi, Martín Photography, Asier Bastida, Bilbao Basket, CC by- 3.0-ES 2012/EJ-GV/Irekia-Basque Country Regional Government/Mikel Arrazola, ABAO-OLBE © E. Moreno Esquibel, CC Amélie Nollet, CC Zawp, CC Hacería, CC Infameless and others. Printing: Encover. BI-00396-2020/5.000 Truly unique Shopping Truly 4 UNIQUE 5 he transformation process experienced by Bilbao Bizkaia is clearly visible as you wander around the city and the green spaces surrounding it. You can enjoy avant-garde architecture which happily lives alongside a deeply-rooted identity that is evident in the area’s heritage, culture and cuisine. TA consequence of this coexistence is the commerce now available, ranging from traditional shops selling local products to stores displaying the latest trends in their win- dows. They are all establishments that will make your shopping experience truly unique. This leaflet aims to offer a sample of all of this. An invitation to enjoy the tourist attractions the area has to offer and to take the opportunity to have a look around the interesting stores you’ll find along the way. In Bilbao Bizkaia you can purchase all the products that make this place so unique, and we are keen for you to take a little of our way of being with you. 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You can find products along these Frience sought after by many that has lines, visiting Basque designer shops, in many become quite trendy, always with a great at- cases of international renown. mosphere. Come check out one of the mar- kets, you’re sure to find a treasure. authentic shops bizkaia eskutik hat we would call “shops that have andicrafts brought into modern times. been here forever”. Shops that have Works of art in the shape of furniture, Wpreserved features from yesteryear, Hjewellery, notebooks, sculptures, etc., all and have not changed their appearance or sa- with a Basque essence and the know-how to voir-faire over time. create the product with a contemporary touch. Truly unique Bilbao Metro Shopping You will love TO SHOP A card for TRAVELLING AND SHOPPING with benefits he institutions of Bilbao Bizkaia It is also a passport to shopping have decided to make it easier with discounts and special offers. for visitors to get about by offer- T It offers discounts on museums, ing discounts on urban and intercity guided tours, restaurants, shops transport with the Bilbao Bizkaia and tourist activities, and saves 8 Card. you from standing in queues to get 9 All you have to do is remember to into the Guggenheim Bilbao Muse- buy one at any Bilbao Tourist office or um or the Fine Arts Museum. book one before your trip. Make sure you get one and make www.bilbaobizkaiacard.com/reservas/ the most of your visit. The shops appearing in this leaflet Using the Bilbao Bizkaia Card is the smartest way to get around Bilbao accept BBCARDs and the rest of the region in order to discover all its tourist attractions. The card offers users major savings on unlimited use of public transport. A In addition, thanks to the offers from GOOD our partners, you’ll also have access IDEA! to exclusive deals. Discounts on urban and intercity transport, discounts at a number of shops. But, wait! There is more; this card The Bilbao Bizkaia Card provides access will be your passport to buying tick- to the following means of transport: ets, going to museums and exhibi- Rail: Metro, Tram, Euskotren on jour- tions and participating certain tour- neys within Biscay ist activities, in many cases saving you from standing in the queue. Of Buses: Intercity (Bizkaibus), course, it also offers benefits at Bilbao urban lines (Bilbobus) certain restaurants. Cable: Artxanda cable car, Reineta cable car. Truly unique basque corner Shopping With t may seem obvious that buying mementos from souvenir shops Iis a most traditional shopping ex- perience while travelling. But when you visit any of these PERSONALITY types of shops, you will see that here we want to make sure that what we offer is representa- tive of our Rice cake identity and has a very The seafaring essence of our re- 10 personal gion is evident in the “arrantzale” 11 essence. clothing, or the meticulous repro- For example, in these shops you’ll find ductions of the fishing boats you can txikito glasses (used to “txikitear” or see along the Basque coast. drink small glasses of young wines at For lovers of the contemporary, a A any bar) and miniature reproductions GOOD If anything truly characterises Bil- good idea is to bring home a book IDEA of the equipment used in Basque about architecture or reproductions ! In red and white bao Bizkaia today, it is a culture in sports, such as harrijasotzailes, aiz- of works of art you may find, as well Walking though the which identity and traditions com- kolaris and Basque pelota. Athletic Club bine with absolute modernity. In as any of the other incredibly original of Bilbao museum or its official line with this, we thought it would items you’ll found in museum shops. stores is an extremely exciting ex- perience. Take home a memento of be a good idea to prepare what we In some tourist offices you can pur- this emblematic club, founded in like to call the “Shopping concept”. chase traditional items from this the 19th century, such as a At souvenir shops, museum shops region such as folk pottery piece of pitch or a model and the shops in certain tourist of- or reproductions of the of San Mamés, a football, fices, you will find products that Bilbao pavement tile in a stuffed lion... represent the heart and soul of any form: from choco- the Basque Country, ranging lates to silk scarves. from traditional costumes and handicrafts to crea- tions produced by con- temporary designers. Truly unique Shopping basque experience If you are still on the coast, pay a vis- it to Bermeo, home to a leading fish canning industry with products such as bonito tuna and anchovies. The fodder from the inland moun- tains, the staple diet of the latxas sheep, is partly responsible for the excellent quality of Idiazabal and Carranzana cheese. Idiazabal Cheese Anchovies Gernika Market hen you visit one of the lo- cations where “Game of FLAVOURS WThrones” was filmed, the San 12 Juan de Gaztelugatxe hermitage, take 13 in their place of origin the opportunity to discover some of the txakolí wineries along the coast of Uribe, Urdabai or inland in both of these areas, all of which are of top quality and can be toured with experts. There is no better way to discover the If you prefer craft beer, still in the area essence of a country or region than by of Uribe or in Encartaciones or Bilbao, taking a look at its markets, its most you can watch it being made and try characteristic products and the way in different varieties. which they are prepared. That is why you should not miss a visit to the agri- cultural and livestock fairs or the local markets, some of which have been in A existence for over 100 years. GOOD You can see locals’ enthusiasm for IDEA! At first hand always offering the best to those who know how to choose. As you wander around the mar- Would you like to see how all these kets we have recommended, and delicacies get from the farms of Bis- through many grocery stores, you cay and the Cantabrian Sea to the shop will be able to buy these products or the market and how they are pre- that are part of the Basque identity pared? and the basis of the excellent cui- Do you want to know what you abso- sine prepared here, as well as many lutely must try? Carry on reading….