Leioa
Leioa is a municipality in Biscay, Basque Country, in northern Spain.
Leioa is a municipality in Biscay, Basque Country, in northern Spain. It is located south of Getxo and Berango delimitating east and south with Erandio, Portugalete and Sestao. Today it is part of the Bilbao conurbation. Its population in 2019 was 31,795. Leioa has an area of 8.36 square kilometres (3.23 sq mi). The Udondo river constitutes the eastern limit of the municipality.
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Worth seeing in and around Leioa
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.
- 01Vizcaya 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.
2.3 km · bridge · Wikipedia - 02University 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.
1.6 km · public university in the Basque Autonomous Community of Spain · Wikipedia - 03Estadio 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.
2.7 km · stadium in Barakaldo, Spain · Wikipedia - 04Las 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.
2.5 km · football stadium in Sestao, Spain · Wikipedia - 05Basque 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.
1.7 km · Basque Country Museum · Wikipedia - 06Campo Municipal de Gobela
Campo Municipal de Gobela is the home stadium of Arenas Club de Getxo, Getxo with a 2,000 capacity.
1.5 km · stadium in Getxo, Spain · Wikipedia - 07Josaleta 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.
2.4 km · football stadium in Getxo, Spain · Wikipedia - 08Ánima Eskola School of Drama
The Ánima Eskola School of Drama is a drama school or drama institution in Bilbao, Spain. Founded in 2009 by Marina Shimanskaya and Algis Arlauskas in Bilbao, since 2017 it acquired another facility in Erandio.
3 km · Spanish professional school (higher college) of performing arts, dramatic art and theatre (drama school) · Wikipedia - 09Barakaldo Theatre
The Barakaldo Theatre in Basque is a theater in Barakaldo, Spain. It was inaugurated in 1990.
3.3 km · theater in Barakaldo, Spain · Wikipedia - 10Faculty 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.
1.9 km · faculty of the University of the Basque Country · Wikipedia
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Getting to Leioa
- Airports
- Bilbao (BIO), 7 km · Zaragoza (ZAZ), 244 km · Bordeaux–Mérignac (BOD), 247 km
- Stations
- Algorta, 3.1 km · Neguri, 2 km · Astrabudua, 1.4 km · Aiboa, 2.2 km · Bidezabal, 3.8 km
- Zaragoza → Leioa254 km · quickest by road, 4h 22m · €32–44
- Ranón → Leioa249 km · quickest by road, 4h 26m · €31–43
- Madrid → Leioa329 km · quickest by air, 4h 14m · €100–150
- 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 Leioa
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 Leioa. 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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Next door to Leioa
Leioa is 9 km from Bilbao, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Barakaldocity in Basque Country, Spain3.3 km
- Getxomunicipality in the Basque Country2.4 km
- Portugaletehuman settlement in Greater Bilbao, Biscay, Basque Country, Spain2.6 km
- Sestaotown and municipality located in the province of Biscay2.2 km
- Santurtzimunicipality of Basque Country, Spain3.5 km
- Erandiomunicipality of Spain2.8 km