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Barakaldo
Barakaldo ( es, Baracaldo; eu, Barakaldo ) is a municipality located in the Biscay province in the Basque Country. Located on the 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 & Wilcox. Although several factories remain, areas that were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barakaldo (Metro Bilbao)
Barakaldo is a station on 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 from Basauri to Kabiezes. The station is also served by Bizkaibus BizkaiBus is the name for bus services serving the province of Biscay, Spain. It is named after the Basque name of the province, ''Bizkaia''. The buses can be identified by their distinctive green (until 2009 yellow) livery. The bus network is i ... regional bus services and Kbus, the ... [...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 other 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 dur ... [...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 three lines, named C-1, C-2 and C-3. All three of them start at Bilbao-Abando, Bilbao-Abando station, which is the central station of the city. System Cercanías Bilbao follows the same patterns as other Cercanías networks in the country, as Cercanías Madrid or Cercanías Barcelona. The network consists of three lines, all of them starting at Bilbao-Abando and linking the center of Bilbao with other Municipalities of Spain, municipalities within the Bilbao metropolitan area, metropolitan area. There are three lines, named C-1, C-2 and C-3; the first two follow the Estuary of Bilbao, and the C-3 reaches municipalities outside the metropolitan area. The network has connections with Metro Bilbao (rapid transit) ... [...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 to Kabiezes. The station is also served by Bizkaibus BizkaiBus is the name for bus services serving the province of Biscay, Spain. It is named after the Basque name of the province, ''Bizkaia''. The buses can be identified by their distinctive green (until 2009 yellow) livery. The bus network is i ... r ... [...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, 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 the exhibition halls, the complex has a V ... [...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 to Kabiezes. The station is also served by Bizkaibus BizkaiBus is the name for bus services serving the province of Biscay, Spain. It is named after the Basque name of the province, ''Bizkaia''. The buses can be identified by their distinctive g ... [...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 one. The capital city of Greater Bilbao is Bilbao. Greater Bilbao is made by the municipalities situated along the Estuary of Bilbao which themselves form a conurbation, which Bilbao metropolitan area, metropolitan area is the 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, comprising ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basque Country (autonomous Community)
The Basque Country (; eu, Euskadi ; es, País Vasco ), also called Basque Autonomous Community ( eu, Euskal Autonomia Erkidegoa, links=no, EAE; es, Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco, links=no, CAPV), is an autonomous community of Spain. It includes the provinces (and historical territories) of Álava, Biscay, and Gipuzkoa, located in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, bordering on the autonomous communities of Cantabria, Castile and León, La Rioja, and Navarre, and the French region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. The Basque Country or Basque Autonomous Community is enshrined as a ' nationality' within the Spanish State in its 1979 statute of autonomy, pursuant to the administrative acquis laid out in the 1978 Spanish Constitution. The statute provides the legal framework for the development of the Basque people on Spanish soil. Navarre, which had narrowly rejected a joint statute with Gipuzkoa, Álava and Biscay in 1932, became a full-fledged foral autonomous communit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biscay
Biscay (; eu, Bizkaia ; es, Vizcaya ) is a province of Spain and a historical territory of the Basque Country, heir of the ancient Lordship of Biscay, lying on the south shore of the 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 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 and out meaning 'low ridge' or 'prominence' (''Iheldo bizchaya'' attested in 1141 for the Monte Igueldo in San Sebastián). Denominations ''Bizkaia'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Partido Nacionalista Vasco
The Basque Nationalist Party (, EAJ ; es, Partido Nacionalista Vasco, PNV; french: Parti Nationaliste Basque, PNB; EAJ-PNV), officially Basque National Party in English,) was rejected by party members in November 2011. Nonetheless, the party did introduce the change in the English version of the name. is a Basque nationalist and regionalist political party. The party is Christian-democratic, with social-democratic and conservative-liberal factions. It operates in all the territories comprising the Basque Country: the Basque Autonomous Community and Navarre in Spain, and in the French Basque Country. It also has delegations in dozens of foreign nations, specifically those with a major presence of Basque immigrants. 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. The EAJ-PNV is the largest Basque nationalist party, having led the Basque Government uninterruptedl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erandio
Erandio is a town and Municipalities of Spain, municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Country, northern Spain. The name comes from euskera ARANDIO that means plum plantation or field. In 1415, during the War of the Bands, the ''corregidor'', the royally-appointed governor of the Biscayan ''hermandad'', acting on royal orders, siphoned off Biscayan wheat to the Asturias, inciting a rebellion. The Biscayans were defeated at Erandio with the loss of sixty men and the wheat transfers continued. Festivals Several annual festivals are celebrated in Erandio. Most of them are Fiesta patronal, ''fiestas patronales'' (patronage festivals, held in the days around the date dedicated to the patron saints under whose advocation churches and hermits are). The local public holiday of the municipality rotates yearly on August 10, August 28 and the Corpus Christi (feast), corpus Christi day. * June 11, Barnabas, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metro Bilbao
The Bilbao metro ( es, Metro de Bilbao, eu, Bilboko metroa) 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 Nervión, 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 (Bilbao metro), Zazpikaleak/Casco Viejo station, where all three current lines meet. The metro is connected with the Bilbao tram, Cercanías Bilbao, Bilboko Aldiriak (commuter rail services), Euskotren Trena (commuter rail services), Renfe Feve, 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 railway, metre gauge. , the Metro operates on of Network length (transport), route, with 48 stations. It is the thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
