BASQUE
COUNTRY
After spending the start of the
week exploring two of Europe’s
most celebrated cities, end your
Spanish holiday in the country’s
beautiful and verdant northeastern reaches. The semi-autonomous
Basque Country – Pais Vasco in Spanish or Euskadi in Basque – is
accessible via a short one-hour flight from Barcelona, or scenic eighthour train journey for those on a more relaxed itinerary. Visitors will
want to focus on two areas: funky, art-loving Bilbao, and the relaxed
seaside resort city of San Sebastian.
Bilbao burst onto the international arts scene in 1997 with the opening of the Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, which
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BILBAO