File 21-basque-loc-spa9.dwg Book Spain 9 Initial Mapping Peter Date 14/8/12 Road Scale All key roads labelled? Hierarchy Date Title Hydro Chapter Basque Country, Navarra y La Editor Cxns Peter 14/8/12 Spot colours removed? Hierarchy Nthpt Masking in Illustrator done? Symbols Author Stuart Butler MC Cxns Peter Date 14/8/12 Book Inset/enlargement correct? Off map Notes dest'ns Border Country Locator A1 Key None Author Cxns Peter Date 14/8/12 Basefile 15-basque-loc-spa8.dwg Final Ed Cxns Peter Date 14/8/12 KEY FORMAT SETTINGS New References Number of Rows (Lines) Editor Check Date MC Check Date Column Widths and Margins MC/CC Signoff Date ©Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd Basque Country, Navarra & La Rioja Why Go Bilbao ...........................408 The jade hills and drizzle-filled skies of this pocket of Spain San Sebastián ..............425 are quite a contrast to the popular image of the country. The Vitoria ........................... 437 Basques, the people who inhabit this corner, also consider Pamplona .....................442 themselves different. They claim to be the oldest Europeans The Pyrenees ...............448 and to speak the original European language. Whether or not this is actually the case remains unproven, but what is Logroño ........................454 beyond doubt is that they live in a land of exceptional beauty Wine Region .................459 and diversity. There are mountains watched over by almost- forgotten gods, cultural museums and art galleries, street parties a million people strong, and arguably the best food Best Places to Eat in Spain. Leave the rugged north behind and feel the temperature » Arzak (p434) rise as you hit the open, classically Spanish plains south » La Cuchara de San Telmo of Pamplona. Here you enter the world of Navarra and La (p432) Rioja. It’s a region awash with glorious wine, sunburst col- » Rio-Oja (p416) ours, dreamy landscapes, medieval monasteries and entic- ing wine towns. » Mesón las Migas (p452) » Querida María Restau- rante (p440) When to Go Bilbao Best Places to °C/°F Temp Rainfall Inches/mm Stay 40/104 8/200 » Pensión Bellas Artes 30/86 6/150 (p430) 20/68 4/100 » Palacio Guendulain (p444) » Hospederia Las Pedrolas 10/50 2/50 (p458) 0/32 0 » La Casa de los Arquillos J F JMAM J DNOSA (p440) May–Jun Beat 6–14 Jul Get Sep Hike the high » Casa Rural Legado de the crowds to the caught up in the passes of the Na- Ugarte (p462) art galleries of chaos of Pam- varran Pyrenees Bilbao and the plona’s renowned and relish the pintxo bars of San Sanfermines autumnal colours. Sebastián. festival. 407 BASQUE COUNTRY this is where mountain peaks reach for the sky and sublime rocky coves are battered No matter where you’ve just come from, be by mighty tlantic swells. It’s a place that it the hot, southern plains of Spain or gentle demands exploration beyond the delightful and pristine rance, the Basque ountry is and cosmopolitan main cities of Bilbao, i- different. nown to Basques as Euskadi or toria and San Sebastin. ou travel through Euskal Herria the land of Basque Speak- the Basque ountry always curious, and al- ers’ and called El Pais asco in Spanish, ways rewarded. ATLANTIC BA Bayof sq OCEAN Biscay U e C San Biarritz #\ Sebastián OUNTRY Castro- Plentzia Bermeo #\ Elantxobe Airport Urdiales #\ #\ San Hondarribia #\ #\ Algorta Mundaka #\Lekeitio #– #\ \# Sebastián #] Hendaye Portugalete #\ 3 #\ Zarautz \# #– # #\ #1 Irún Puerto #\ #\ Ondarroa #\ #\ Pasajes Baracaldo ^# Bilbao de Otxondo #2 Airport Guernica Zumaia Getaria c , N Bilbao Eibar SantuariodeLoyola Durango #\ #\ #\ c Av #Ü Azpeitia \# FRANCE #\ Llodio #\ Elizondo Puerto cR Amboto Tolosa Valcarlos \# ARRA de Urquiola #\ Beasain Navarran Oñati #\ Arrasate #\ R Lekunberri c#\ Pyrenees Puerto de #\ Roncesvalles #\ (Mondragón) #\ Txindoki R Burguete #6 cLarrau Arantzazu Altxueta Puerto de L & #\ ôSA15 Ibañeta Isaba Vitoria #– Ochagavia #\ Airport ^# A #^#7 Pamplona Roncal \# R Vitoria Pamplona #– Airport IO Burgui #\ MirandadeEbro jA #] Estella #\ (Lizarra) Puente n#\ Yesa B gó #\ la Reina ra ASQUE ôSAP1 Haro \# Laguardia A Javier #\ ío #\ R Briones Logroño #5 ^# Olite#5#\ SantoDomingo a \# Nájera g Ujué \# R C de la Calzada ío r Eb ro A Parque Natural OUNTRY o í de lasBárdenas Calahorra #\ R Reales #÷ #4 Arnedillo La Rioja \# #\ Encisco #\ Tudela 0 40km e# 0 20miles Basque Country, Navarra & La Rioja Highlights 1 Play on a perfect beach, 3 Get barrelled in the surf of Olite (p451) and Ujué gorge on fabulous pintxos at Mundaka (p421) and (p452) (Basque tapas), dance all re-create the Guggenheim 6 Climb mist-shrouded night and dream of staying in sand-castle form on a slopes haunted by witches forever in stylish San beautiful Basque beach and vultures in the Navarran Sebastián (p425), the food 4 Learn the secrets of a Pyrenees (p448) capital of the planet good drop in the museums 7 Pretend you’re 2 Wish that you too could and vineyards of La Rioja Hemingway during the paint like a genius in the (p454) Sanfermines week of galleries of Bilbao (p408) 5 Roll back the years in debauchery in Pamplona the medieval fortress towns (p442).