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Las Arenas

Areeta is a neighbourhood of Getxo.

Las Arenas
Las Arenas · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Areeta is a neighbourhood of Getxo. It is an affluent residential area that was built over the sands of a beach where the Gobela Creek died into a diffuse delta at the mouth of the Estuary of Bilbao in the early 20th century.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Las Arenas

9 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.

  1. 01
    Vizcaya Bridge

    The Vizcaya Bridge is a transporter bridge that links the towns of Portugalete and Las Arenas in the Biscay province of Spain, crossing the mouth of the Nervión River. People in the area, and even the official website, commonly call it the Puente Colgante, although its structure is quite different from a suspension bridge.

    400 m · bridge · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    University of the Basque Country

    The University of the Basque Country is a Spanish public university of the Basque Autonomous Community. Heir of the University of Bilbao, initially it was made up of the Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences of Sarriko, Medicine and Sciences.

    3.5 km · public university in the Basque Autonomous Community of Spain · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Estadio Nuevo Lasesarre

    Lasesarre is a stadium in Barakaldo, Spain. It is currently used for football matches and is the home stadium of Barakaldo CF. The stadium holds 7,960 spectators.

    3.3 km · stadium in Barakaldo, Spain · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Las Llanas Municipal Stadium

    The Las Llanas Municipal Stadium, is a municipal football stadium located in Sestao. It was opened in 1923 and has a capacity for 4,367 spectators.

    1.7 km · football stadium in Sestao, Spain · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Basque Museum of the History of Medicine and Science

    The Basque Museum of the History of Medicine was founded in 1982 to preserve and conserve the historic memory of medicine and scientific heritage of Basque Country. The Museum is located on the university campus of Leioa and is important in student training in the Faculty of Medicine and other faculties and schools.

    3.6 km · Basque Country Museum · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Campo Municipal de Gobela

    Campo Municipal de Gobela is the home stadium of Arenas Club de Getxo, Getxo with a 2,000 capacity.

    800 m · stadium in Getxo, Spain · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Josaleta Stadium

    Jolaseta Stadium or Campo de Jolaseta was the football main stadium of Arenas Club de Getxo, Getxo in the neighboring district of Neguri, between 1910 and 1925. In 1925 they moved to Campo de Ibaiondo, later Campo de Gobela till 2004, and since 2004 they have had a new modern stadium Campo Municipal de Gobela.

    2.1 km · football stadium in Getxo, Spain · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Barakaldo Theatre

    The Barakaldo Theatre in Basque is a theater in Barakaldo, Spain. It was inaugurated in 1990.

    3.8 km · theater in Barakaldo, Spain · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Faculty of Law (University of the Basque Country)

    The Faculty of Law, University of the Basque Country is the Law School of the University of the Basque Country. The main building of the Faculty of Law is located in San Sebastian, on the Gipuzkoa Campus of the University of the Basque Country.

    3.9 km · faculty of the University of the Basque Country · 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 Las Arenas

Airports
Bilbao (BIO), 9 km · Zaragoza (ZAZ), 245 km · Asturias (OVD), 245 km
Stations
Algorta, 2.8 km · Neguri, 1.7 km · Gobela, 1 km · Areeta, 300 m · Lamiako, 1.1 km
  • Zaragoza → Las Arenas
    67 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · €8–11
  • Ranón → Las Arenas
    25 km · quickest by road, 49 min · €3.5–5
  • Madrid → Las Arenas
    16 km · quickest by road, 40 min · €2–3
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Las Arenas

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 Las Arenas. 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

    829 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    882 km
  3. 03
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    901 km
  4. 04
    ChefchaouenMA

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    927 km
  5. 05
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    1,025 km

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

Around it

Next door to Las Arenas

Las Arenas is 10 km from Bilbao, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Barakaldocity in Basque Country, Spain3.6 km
  • Getxomunicipality in the Basque Country2.1 km
  • Portugaletehuman settlement in Greater Bilbao, Biscay, Basque Country, Spain900 m
  • Sestaotown and municipality located in the province of Biscay1.7 km
  • Santurtzimunicipality of Basque Country, Spain1.6 km
  • Leioamunicipality of Spain2.3 km