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 This city has an enormous offer of museums (Guggenheim, Fine Arts, Maritime...), complemented with several medium and little places where you can enjoy different concerts and plays.
You cannot avoid eating out in Bilbao. Her you can find some of the best places of the basque gastronomy, but "ir de pinchos” and "ir de poteo" can bring you closer to one of the main attractives of the city: its people and its habits. Bilbao offers a large range of high quality commerces for those who like going shopping.
 Bilbao has, ultimately, a lot of surprises like bridges, balconies, remarkable buildings, squares and gardens that you will discover if you decide to spend a few days in the capital of Vizcaya.
The left border, crossed by buses and nearness trains, is the traditional industrial part of Vizcaya. You can see its kindest face in Portugalete around the Vizcaya Bridge, that joins both borders of the Nervion Estuary. There you can find the perfect mixture between the industry, with the ships come into Bilbao, and the beautiful old part of Portugalete, with narrow streets and a lot of restaurants. Close to all these places you will find the Saint Mary Church and the Salazar Tower.
 Following the estuary towards the sea, by the avenue that joins Portugalete and Santurce, you will see a lot of antique and wonderful houses.
Santurce, around its port, where the brotherhood of fishermen receive all the visitors with his famous sardines and another products from the sea.
La Arboleda, old mined zone, is a different way to know the left border and its history. Communicating by a funicular with Trapagaran, you climb through it to an old mined village and the old mines, nowadays deserted, which today are little lagoons because of the rain. You should not miss the famous "alubias" (beans) in some of its restaurants.
The right border, splendidly communicated by bus and subway, goes to the sea in the Vizcaya Bridge, in Getxo. This centennial ferry, which still joins both borders night and day, is the best way to know the towns from both sides of the estuary.
 Getxo, traditional residential town, gives you the possibility to rest close to the Abra, which is the name of the entrance of sea in the estuary. You can walk around watching the mansions built by the old middle-class at the beginning of the century, enjoy its sporting port or the old port (a lovely and traditional fishing boat), finally you can lean out the cliffs and balconies above the port of Bilbao.
Mas información :
http://www.bilbao.net
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