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Gatika

Gatika is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain.

Gatika
Gatika · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Gatika is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain. As of 2009, it has 1,559 inhabitants.

The historic Butrón castle is located in Gatika.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Gatika

One place 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.

  1. 01
    Butrón

    The castle of Butrón is a Spanish castle located in Gatika, in the province of Biscay, in the Basque Autonomous Community. The current building has a neo-Gothic appearance.

    3.5 km · castle of Spain · Wikipedia

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.

Go there

Getting to Gatika

Airports
Bilbao (BIO), 8 km · Bordeaux–Mérignac (BOD), 237 km · Zaragoza (ZAZ), 241 km
  • Zaragoza → Gatika
    251 km · quickest by road, 4h 29m · €32–45
  • Ranón → Gatika
    258 km · quickest by road, 4h 39m · €32–45
  • Madrid → Gatika
    335 km · quickest by air, 4h 16m · €100–150
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Gatika

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 Gatika. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Bilbao, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    823 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    879 km
  3. 03
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    889 km
  4. 04
    ChefchaouenMA

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    934 km
  5. 05
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    1,013 km

If you know how people move in Gatika – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Gatika

Gatika is 12 km from Bilbao, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.