Casco Viejo
Las Siete Calles or Casco Viejo in Spanish or Zazpikaleak or Alde Zaharra in Basque are different names for the medieval neighbourhood of Bilbao, part of the Ibaiondo district.
Las Siete Calles or Casco Viejo in Spanish or Zazpikaleak or Alde Zaharra in Basque are different names for the medieval neighbourhood of Bilbao, part of the Ibaiondo district. The walled section of the town existed until the end of the 19th century and was known by the names Seven Streets or Old Town, respectively.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Casco Viejo
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
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- 08Euskalduna Conference Centre and Concert Hall
Convention centre and concert hall in Bilbao, Spain
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Casco Viejo
- Airports
- Bilbao (BIO), 5 km · Zaragoza (ZAZ), 235 km · Bordeaux–Mérignac (BOD), 248 km
- Stations
- Bilbao-Abando, 500 m · Bilbao-Atxuri station, 400 m · San Mames Station, 2.1 km · Sarriko, 3.4 km · Basarrate, 1.3 km
- Zaragoza → Casco Viejo144 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · €18–25
- Ranón → Casco Viejo256 km · quickest by road, 4h 29m · €31–44
- Madrid → Casco Viejo21 km · quickest by road, 45 min · €2.5–3.5
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Casco Viejo
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Casco Viejo. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inwikipedia:Renfe_Feve wikipedia:Renfe_Feve Brittany Ferries run a direct car ferry between Bilbao and Portsmouth, England.
- Get inIt is best to book early, since the ferry is often booked out in summer.
- Get inFerries land at Zierbena, at about 15 km from the centre of Bilbao.
- Get aroundYou can use the tram, bus or funicular to move around Bilbao.
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