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The Most Sustainable Way to Get to Know Our Region Let us take you there Train&BUS The most sustainable way to get to know our region There are 16 7x different routes 9x • Great destinations just a “metro” from Bilbao • Visit the coast by rail • Trips for enjoying a beautiful green landscape • Programme your origin and destination exactly ROUTES BY TRAIN 10 Route 1. The banks of the 16 Route 4. Gernika and Urdaibai Estuary People who strive for Peace and The bridge that connects us harmony with the sea 12 Route 2. Searching for 18 Route 5. Durango as a destination 8 waves The spectacle of nature Train Iron giants and 20 Route 6. Bilbao-Orduña surfboards The source of the Nervión 14 Route 3. Rail tracks 22 Route 7. The Kadagua route BUS When the ore forged Living Passion, putxeras (stews) our character and berets ROUTES SITTING DOWN OR 26 Route 1: Uribe 34 Route 5: Lea-Artibai HAVING A PINTXO BY BUS The coastal delight of The beauty of the coast and tradition the rural world 36 Route 6: Markina/Ondarroa A la carte gastronomic This card offers savings and convenience for recommendations planning your stay in Bilbao/Bizkaia on public 28 Route 2: Urdaibai The pilgrims' way 44 transport and tickets to museums, shows, restaurants, shops and other leisure spaces. Ancestral art and 38 Route 7: Durangaldea Ask for it at any tourist office or at: living forests What the stones tell us www.bilbaobizkaiacard.com 24 30 Route 3: Arteaga/Bird 40 Route 8: Zeanuri/Otxandio/Ubide Centre/Laida-Laga Between Urkiola and Gorbeia Nature in freedom January 2019 First edition 42 Route 9: Nervión Edition: 32 Route 4: Elantxobe Velvet beech forests and magical caves Publisher: Bilbao Bizkaia be Basque The village which hangs Production: Bell Communicación Tourist brochure photos: Bilbao Tourism archives, Bizkaia Tourism, Basquetour, from a cliff PRACTICALINFO 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, Addresses, phone numbers, links... ABAO-OLBE © E. Moreno Esquibel, CC Amélie Nollet, CC Zawp, CC Hacería, CC find out everything Infameless and other authors. 46 Printing: MCCGRAPHICS. BI-68-2019 Train BUS et ready to discover Bizkaia and all its hidden We suggest seven trips by train and nine by bus if you corners, its people, its cuisine, its history. like to “be taken there”. A good way to enjoy some of the You are going to venture into a universe which suggestions we offer which you will then want to tell the Gexists in a small area of land in Euskadi; a re- whole world. gion full of contrasts, with its own ancient identity, which gives character to its hospitable people, lovers of good Ongi etorri. food and sharing it. San Juan de Gaztelugatxe Bermeo Bakio Bermeo 2 Laga Plentzia Mundaka Elantxobe Sopela 1 Laida BY TRAIN Itsasbegi- BY BUS Gautegiz- Lekeitio Getxo Busturia Mungia Arteaga Santurtzi Bird C. Portugalete Gernika- Santimamiñe Ondarroa 1 Lumo Gernika- Oma Gallarta 4 3 Lumo Trapagaran Bilbao 4 5 La Reineta Markina-Xemein Bilbao 2 3 Zenarruza 7 Monastery 4 5 Balmaseda 5 6 La Calzada Durango Durango 9 7 8 6 Elorrio Zeanuri Orozko Urkiola Gorbeia Ubide Otxandio Amurrio Orduña Route 1: Uribe Route 2: Urdaibai Route 1. The banks of the Estuary Route 3: Arteaga/Bird Centre/Laida-Laga Route 2. Searching for waves Route 4: Elantxobe Route 3. Rail tracks Route 5: Lea Artibai Route 4. Gernika and Urdaibai Route 6: Markina/Ondarroa Route 5. Durango as a destination Route 7: Durangaldea Route 6. Bilbao-Orduña Route 8: Zeanuri/Otxandio/Ubide Route 7. The Kadagua route Route 9: Nervión Train Bilbao Metro BUS A card for TRAVELLING, VISITING AND SHOPPING with benefits his is the reason that the institu- Free public transport tions of Bilbao and Bizkaia have Getting around Bilbao and the rest Tdecided to make it easier for of Bizkaia has never been easier. visitors to get about by offering bene- Once you have activated your Bilbao fits onurban and intercity transport Bizkaia Card in any transport net- 6 with the Bilbao Bizkaia Card. work, you can travel at no addi- 7 tional cost for 24h, 48h or 72h, All you need to do is remember to depending on the type of card you purchase it from the Bilbao Tourist have purchased. Offices or reserve it before starting your trip. www.bilbaobizkaiacard.com/reservas/ Using the Bilbao Bizkaia Card is the smartest way to get around Bilbao and the rest of the region in order to In addition, thanks to the offers discover all its tourist attractions. The from our associates, you can also A card offers use major savings when access exclusive deals. GOOD using public transport without limit. IDEA! It is also an interesting passport when shopping, with discounts and Benefits on urban and interurban special offers. transport, benefits also when you shop in a large number of estab- It offers discounts in museums, on lishments. guided tours, in restaurants, shops The Bilbao Bizkaia Card can be used But there is more, this card will be and tourist activities, and saves on the following means of transport. your passport to buying tickets, you from standing in queues to get You will have all the tourist facilities going to museums and exhibitions into the Guggenheim Bilbao Muse- of the region at your fingertips: or taking part in certain tourist ac- um or the Fine Arts Museum. RAIL: Metro, Tram, Euskotren on its tivities, saving you from standing Make sure you get one and get the journeys through Bizkaia in the queue in many cases. And best from your visit. BUSES AND coacHES: Intercity of course, it also has benefits in coaches (Bizkaibus), Bilbao city some restaurants. buses (Bilbobus) CABLE: Artxanda cable car, La Rein- eta cable car. Train BUS TRAIN TRIPS How romantic it is to watch the countryside go past accompanied by the clickety-clack rhythm Bizkaia of a train. This is our recommendation, however, in addition, Bizkaia's excellent rail network allows you to visit the main tourist sights if you let us take you there. Metro, from Bilbao, local trains from the stations by rail of Atxuri or Abando or from the modernist station of la Concordia, seven trips with all the possible combinations so that you do not miss anything. Bermeo 2 Plentzia Mundaka Sopela Itsasbegi- Getxo Santurtzi Busturia Portugalete Gernika- 1 Lumo Gallarta 8 Trapagaran 3 4 9 La Reineta Bilbao Balmaseda 7 5 6 La Calzada Durango Amurrio Orduña Urdaibai Train Route 1. The banks of the Estuary BUS The bridge that connects us Bizkaia Bridge Algorta Aiboa Neguri Santurtzi Bizkaia Bridge closes the opening inflicted Bizkaia by the river Nervión on the Greater Bilbao Getxo area. The huge iron structure, a testimo- Bridge ny from the past and the present of the Las Arenas importance of this metal in the history of Bizkaia, connects the two banks togeth- Portugalete er, joining two worlds, giving meaning to 1 everything before flowing into the sea. C1 This trip starts at Abando station in Bilbao, on the C1 line of the Renfe lo- cal rail network towards Santurtzi. It takes 22 minutes to reach the fish- Bilbao 10 ing village. The fishing port is just Abando 11 a few metres from the station ex- it. Here we can visit the fish market, You will disembark on Las Arenas Portugalete Santurtzi Itsasoa Museoa maritime Wharf (Getxo), an excellent area for museum or the auction room where wandering around the palatial ar- dramatised auctions regularly take Once in Portugalete, it is worth vis- chitecture from the end of the 19th place. But you have probably heard and early 20th century, a period of of Santurtzi because of its famous iting the medieval old quarter next to the Ría de Bilbao (the Basilica of great social and economic splen- roast sardines, or maybe from the dour. Architects of renown integrat- folk song “Desde Santurce a Bilbao” Santa María, Salazar Tower and the Plaza del Solar) and of course “Biz- ed impressive constructions into the (From Santurce to Bilbao): “sardinas spectacular coastal landscape includ- freskue…” (fresh sardines). kaia Bridge” or “The Hanging Bridge”. This is the first transporter bridge in ing Bidearte, Cisco House, Kai-Alde the world, an authentic wonder of in- Palace, Cristina Etxea or the Church dustrial engineering opened in 1893 of Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes, and declared a World Heritage Site and locations such as Churruca in 2006. Wharf. Continuing along the promenade you Old Harbour of Algorta, reached by a will reach the Marina, fully equipped walk along the edge of the beach. Let It joins two river banks, two worlds, for recreational sailing and vessels yourself be carried away and climb the former working zone of the left Santurtzi in transit. It has a leisure-commercial the steps, you will fall in love with bank and the bourgeois zone of the zone and a technical area for water the fishermen's huts which, irregu- right bank. Without disrupting naviga- sports. Next to this is the cruise ship lar and colourful, stretch along the The next town is Portugalete, tion along the estuary, the iron giant terminal and Ereaga beach. narrow lanes of this fishing quarter. reached in a short stroll. Just 10 is an essential part of Bizkaia history, minutes away is the Agurtza Fishing and will take you to Getxo. Cross the On looking up you will see the ele- You can get back to Bilbao by Met- Boat, one of the last traditional wood- estuary in the gondola or along the Getxo gant stately homes looking down on- ro, from the stations of Algorta or en fishing vessels, open for visits all upper walkway, from where you have to the see and offering shelter to the Neguri, depending on where you are.
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