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Barakaldo
Barakaldo (; ) is a Municipalities of Spain, municipality located in the Biscay province in the Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Country in Spain. Located on the Left Bank (Biscay), Left Bank of the Estuary of Bilbao, the city is part of Greater Bilbao, has a population at 100,881. Barakaldo has an industrial river-port heritage and has undergone significant redevelopment with new commercial and residential areas replacing the once active industrial zones. History The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica original entry on the town stated: Iron mining formed a large part of Barakaldo's industry, making it the endpoint of a mining railway. The steel industry, led by Altos Hornos de Vizcaya, had an important presence during the 20th century, until the industrial recession hit the region's economy in the 1980s. In recent decades, the industrial zones surrounding Barakaldo have become less prominent, which can be owed to the shuttering of large companies such as Babcock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barakaldo (Metro Bilbao)
Barakaldo is a station on Line 2 (Bilbao metro), line 2 of the Bilbao metro. It is located in central Barakaldo, in close proximity to the city hall, the municipal courthouse and the ''Escuela Oficial de Idiomas''. It opened on 13 April 2002. Station layout Barakaldo station follows the typical cavern-shaped layout of most underground Metro Bilbao stations designed by Norman Foster, with the main hall located directly above the rail tracks. Access * 18 Los Fueros St. (''Fueros'' exit) * 1 Euskadi Av. (Corthouse) (''Avda. Euskadi'' exit) * 21 Elkano St. (''Elkano'' exit) * 2 De la Libertad Av. Services The station is served by Line 2 (Bilbao metro), line 2 from Basauri (Bilbao metro), Basauri to Kabiezes (Bilbao metro), Kabiezes. The station is also served by Bizkaibus regional bus services and Kbus, the municipal bus service. References External links * {{Metro Bilbao line, line2=yes Line 2 (Bilbao metro) stations Railway stations in Spain opened in 2002 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gurutzeta/Cruces (Metro Bilbao)
Gurutzeta/Cruces is a station on line 2 of the Bilbao metro. It is located in the neighborhood of Gurutzeta, in the municipality of Barakaldo. The station is located in near proximity to the University Hospital of Gurutzeta (also known as ''Hospital de Cruces'' in Spanish), the largest public healthcare facility in the Basque Country. The station was opened on 13 April 2002, as part of the opening of line 2. The trip from San Ignazio to Gurutzeta/Cruces takes four minutes, making it the longest interval between underground stations throughout the entire Bilbao metro network. It is one of four stations located in Barakaldo, the others being Ansio, Bagatza and Barakaldo. Station layout Gurutzeta/Cruces station follows the typical cavern-shaped layout of most underground Metro Bilbao stations designed by Norman Foster, with the main hall located directly above the rail tracks. Access * Gurutzeta - Hospital (Gurutzeta/Cruces exit) * Llano St. (Llano exit, closed during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bilbao Exhibition Centre
The Bilbao Exhibition Centre (commonly abbreviated as BEC) is an exhibition centre in Barakaldo, Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Country, Spain. The current headquarters of the Feria de Muestras de Bilbao, its facilities are located on land formerly occupied by the Basque iron company Altos Hornos de Vizcaya in the neighbourhood of Ansio in Barakaldo, in the Greater Bilbao area. These facilities, opened in April 2004, allow for high capacity international fairs with better services, infrastructure, and connections than the previous facilities in central Bilbao. The Bilbao Exhibition Centre is jointly owned by the Basque Government, the Provincial Council of Biscay, Bilbao Municipal Council, Barakaldo Municipal Council and the Bilbao Chamber of Commerce. Overview The Bilbao Exhibition Centre covers an area of , of which are distributed in six pavilions without any columns intended for exhibitions, while the rest houses a shopping mall and a hotel. In addition to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cercanías Bilbao
Cercanías Bilbao (Basque language, Basque: ''Bilboko Aldiriak'') is a commuter rail network in Bilbao, serving the city and its Bilbao metropolitan area, metropolitan area. It is operated by Cercanías, as part of RENFE, Renfe, the national railway company. It consists of four lines, named C-1, C-2, C-3 and C-4. The first three of them start at the Bilbao-Abando, Bilbao-Abando station, which is the central station of the city, whereas the fourth, of metric gauge, starts at the Bilbao Concordia, Bilbao-Concordia station System Cercanías Bilbao follows the same patterns as other Cercanías networks in the country, as Cercanías Madrid or Cercanías Barcelona. The network consists of four lines, three of which start at Bilbao-Abando and the last starts at the nearby Bilbao-Concordia railway station, Bilbao La Concordia station. They all link the center of Bilbao with other Municipalities of Spain, municipalities within and beyond the Bilbao metropolitan area, metropolitan area. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bagatza (Metro Bilbao)
Bagatza is a station on line 2 of the Bilbao metro. It is located in the neighborhood of Santa Teresa, in the municipality of Barakaldo, in close proximity to San Eloy Hospital and the music conservatory. It opened on 13 April 2002. Station layout Barakaldo station follows the typical cavern-shaped layout of most underground Metro Bilbao stations designed by Norman Foster, with the main hall located directly above the rail tracks. Access * Gabriel Aresti St. (''Gabriel Aresti'' exit) * Santa Teresa Plaza (''Santa Teresa'' exit, closed during night time services) * Gabriel Aresti St. (''Gabriel Aresti'' exit) Services The station is served by line 2 from Basauri Basauri is a major municipality of Biscay, in the Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Country, an Autonomous Community in northern Spain. The town is a part of the Greater Bilbao conurbation, being only a few kilometers south of Bilbao. ... to Kabiezes. The station is also served by Bizkaibus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ansio (Metro Bilbao)
Ansio is a station on line 2 of the Bilbao metro. It is located in the neighborhood of Arteagabeitia-Zuazu, in the municipality of Barakaldo. The station is located next to the main entrance to the Bilbao Exhibition Centre (BEC). The main Customer Attention Offices for line 2 are also located in this station. It opened on 13 April 2002. Station layout Unlike other underground stations in the network, and similarly to Sarriko station, the station does not follow a cavern-like design, but it is instead made up of a big single space, with a big shelter that allows sunlight in. Access * Ansio St. (BEC exit) * Station's interior (BEC exit) * BEC Parking * BEC Park & Ride Services The station is served by line 2 from Basauri Basauri is a major municipality of Biscay, in the Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Country, an Autonomous Community in northern Spain. The town is a part of the Greater Bilbao conurbation, being only a few kilometers south of Bilba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greater Bilbao
Greater Bilbao (Basque language, Basque: ''Bilboaldea'', Spanish language, Spanish: ''Gran Bilbao'') is an administrative division of the province of Biscay, in the Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Country, Spain. It is one of the seven comarcas of Spain, comarcas of Biscay and the most populated. The capital city of Greater Bilbao is Bilbao. Greater Bilbao is formed by the municipalities situated along the Estuary of Bilbao which themselves form a Bilbao metropolitan area, metropolitan area, the List of metropolitan areas in Spain, fifth most populous in Spain. Geography Greater Bilbao, or ''Bilboaldea'', is located at the northwest of the province of Biscay, limiting with the comarcas of Enkarterri in the west, Mungialdea and Busturialdea in the east, Durangaldea in the southeast and Arratia-Nerbioi in the south. The Bay of Biscay limits at north. Divisions Greater Bilbao can be divided into six ''subcomarcas'' or subregions: * The city of Bilbao itself ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basque Country (autonomous Community)
The Basque Country or Basque Autonomous Community (), also officially called Euskadi (), is an Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community in northern Spain. It includes the Basque provinces of Álava, Araba, Biscay, Bizkaia, and Gipuzkoa. It surrounds two enclaves called Treviño enclave, Treviño (Province of Burgos, Burgos) and Valle de Villaverde (Cantabria). The Basque Country was granted the status of ''Nationalities and regions of Spain, nationality'', attributed by the Spanish Constitution of 1978. The autonomous community is based on the Statute of Autonomy of the Basque Country, a foundational legal document providing the framework for the development of the Basque people on Southern Basque Country. Parallelly, Navarre, which narrowly rejected a joint statute of autonomy in 1932, was granted a separate chartered statute in 1982. Currently there is no official capital in the autonomous community, but the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz, in the province of Álava, is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biscay
Biscay ( ; ; ), is a province of the Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Autonomous Community, heir of the ancient Lordship of Biscay, lying on the south shore of the Bay of Biscay, eponymous bay. The capital and largest city is Bilbao. Biscay is one of the most renowned and prosperous provinces of Spain, historically a major trading hub in the Atlantic Ocean since medieval times and, later on, one of the largest industrial and financial centers of the Iberian Peninsula. Since the extensive deindustrialization that took place throughout the 1970s, the economy has come to rely more on the Tertiary sector of the economy, services sector. Etymology It is accepted in linguistics (Koldo Mitxelena, etc.) that ''Bizkaia'' is a cognate of ''bizkar'' (cf. Biscarrosse in Aquitaine), with both place-name variants well attested in the whole Basque Country (greater region), Basque Country and out meaning 'low ridge' or 'prominence' (''Iheldo bizchaya'' attested in 1141 for the Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metro Bilbao
The Bilbao metro (, ) is a rapid transit system serving the city of Bilbao and the region of Greater Bilbao. Lines 1 and 2 have a "Y" shape, as they transit both banks of the river Ibaizabal and then combine to form one line that ends in the south of Bilbao. Line 3 has a "V" shape connecting the municipality of Etxebarri with the Bilbao neighbourhood of Matiko; the apex of the "V" is Zazpikaleak/Casco Viejo station, where all three current lines meet. The metro is connected with the Bilbao tram, Bilboko Aldiriak (commuter rail services), Euskotren Trena (commuter rail services), Feve (commuter rail services, regional and long-distance trains), Renfe long-distance trains, and Bilbao's bus station ( Bilbao Intermodal). All three lines use metre gauge. , the Metro operates on of route, with 48 stations. It is the third-busiest metro in Spain, after the Madrid and Barcelona metro systems. The system was inaugurated in 1995, partially taking over a suburban railway line operat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Partido Nacionalista Vasco
The Basque Nationalist Party ( , EAJ; , PNV; , PNB; EAJ-PNV), officially the Basque National Party in English, is a Basque nationalism, Basque nationalist and Regionalism (politics), regionalist List of political parties in the Basque Country, political party. The party is located in the centrism, centre of the political spectrum. It has been described as Christian democracy, Christian democratic, with Social democracy, social democratic and conservative-liberal factions. The EAJ-PNV was founded by Sabino Arana in 1895, which makes it the second oldest extant political party in Spain, after the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). The EAJ-PNV is the largest Basque nationalist party, having led the Basque Government uninterruptedly since 1979, except for a brief period between 2009 and 2012. In Navarre, it is part of the coalition Geroa Bai, which is currently a junior partner of the PSOE in the Navarrese regional government. In Spain at large, the party has been supporting cur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altos Hornos De Vizcaya
Altos Hornos de Vizcaya, S.A. was a Spanish metallurgy manufacturing company. It was the largest company in Spain for much of the 20th century, employing 40,000 workers at its height. The business began in 1902 in Bilbao with the merger of three iron and steel businesses: ''Altos Hornos de Bilbao'', ''La Vizcaya'', and ''La Iberia''. In the 1990s, following a series of mergers, it joined with Arcelor. The location was chosen for the iron mineral resources around Bilbao, the proximity to a Port of Bilbao, sea port, and the metallurgical tradition of the area. After the Spanish Civil War, the industry of Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Country was left basically intact. This proved to be an attractive feature that drew many people during Spain's rural exodus. The business was thus one of the major forces responsible for the economic development of many of the municipalities of Biscay, including Barakaldo, Sestao, Portugalete, Ortuella, and Abanto y Ciérvana-Abanto Z ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
