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Baracaldo

Country:
Spain
State:
Pais Vasco
City:
Baracaldo
Type of Location:
Multiple
About Location

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Places to Visit
How to Reach

By Air

  Airport : The Airport of Bilbao ( IATA : BIO, ICAO : LEBB) nicknamed "the Dove" by way of bird seen from the air, located in the municipalities of Lujua and Sondica, is 16 miles from downtown the city.
  Heliport, located in the park at the rear of the BEC in Baracaldo and used for emergency Hospital de Cruces, waiting for a permanent building in the hospital.

By road

For Baracaldo pass and exit to the town have the following roads:

A-8Spain.png E-70europe.svg Cantabrian Motorway ( Irun - Santiago de Compostela ). Km 120.
N-634 San Sebastian - Santiago de Compostela .
N-637 Baracaldo - Galdacano (Highway Crossings Erletxes by "Rontegui Bridge").
BI-739 Bilbao - Sestao (for Burcena).
BI-745 Baracaldo - Trapaga Valley (road to San Vicente)
BI-3744 Baracaldo - Sestao (Careaga road Sestao by "Vega Vieja").
BI-4734 Baracaldo - Crosses (Cruces access).

By Bus

In Baracaldo pass (they stop) the following bus lines:
A2316 Sestao - UPV / EHU
A2326 Baracaldo - UPV / EHU
A3115 Bilbao - Santurce
A3122 Bilbao - Sestao - Repelega
A3129 Luchana - Crosses - Santurce
A3131 Baracaldo - Sestao - Repelega
A3136 Bilbao - Cruces - Baracaldo (for Retuerto)
A3137 Bilbao - Baracaldo (for Hurtado de Amezaga)
A3139 The Regatta - Baracaldo

By Railway

For commuter services Baracaldo have two railway operators, Renfe and Feve .

These stations are located in the lower area of the city parallel to the river Nervion and have their origin in the year 1888 when it inaugurated the first phase of the line known as BPT (Bilbao-Portugalete-Triano), since the regularized commuter rail services have belonged to the two lines IconoC1.png (From the year 2000 : Bilbao-Abando / Santurce) and IconoC2.png (From the year 2000 : Bilbao-Abando / Musques), with travel time to Bilbao-Abando of approximately 13 minutes from the station Baracaldo.
 

Key places to visit
Bilbao Exhibition Centre, Baracaldo Botanical Garden, Munoa Palace, Greenway, Ermita de Santa Agueda, Camino de Santa Agueda, Church of San Vicente

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Places to Visit

Bilbao Exhibition Centre

The Bilbao Exhibition Centre (BEC) is the headquarters of the Bilbao Exhibition Center. Its facilities are located on land formerly occupied by the company Altos Hornos de Vizcaya, in the neighborhood of Ansio local Vizcaya of Baracaldo in the Basque Country, Spain. These new facilities, opened in April 2004, allow for international competitions and higher capacity, better services, infrastructure and communications.

Baracaldo Botanical Garden

Baracaldo Botanical Garden in Euskera : Barakaldo Lorategi Botanika is a botanical garden in an area of 65,000 m², located in the town of Baracaldo, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, Spain .It is in the green belt of parks Baracaldo-San Vicente, one of its ends.

Munoa Palace

In the neighborhood of Burcena, built in the eighteenth century, French Second Empire style, owned by businessman and politician Horacio Echevarrieta until his death. The council intends to rehabilitate it but not reach an agreement with the current owners. The most outstanding works of art it contained were sold to various museums.

Greenway

Greenway is the name given in Spain the old disused railway lines conditioned as non-motorized transport infrastructure.The greenways, rail due to their origin, are endowed with special qualities: maximum accessibility, ease and safety. They are ideal places to promote sustainable mobility and the practice of walking and cycling, especially attractive for people with reduced mobility (children, elderly, disabled).

Ermita de Santa Agueda

Located in the neighborhood of the same name before the sixteenth century in Gothic style and restored in the years 1960 and 1996. It has a baroque dome installed on the reform of the eighteenth century. Stresses the alabaster image made in St. Agatha with his head separated from the trunk of the year 1350 approximately. It also has another image that St. Agatha is not even known popularly as if it.

Camino de Santa Agueda

Path begins at the Devil's bridge, bridge of a single eye of the sixteenth century between the district and Zubileta Castrejana, shortly after the ascent to St. Agatha, the left is the Causeway Medieval and the forest right Larrazabal. Already in this neighborhood you can spot and climb different mountains of the Sierra Sasiburu .

Church of San Vicente

Located in the suburb of San Vicente, built in the twelfth century and rebuilt in the year 1622 , the Gothic-Renaissance classical towers.

Right Time to Visit

August - October

Temperature

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