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Loiu

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

Loiu
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The place

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

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Loiu

5 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
    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.

    3.2 km · public university in the Basque Autonomous Community of Spain · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    3.1 km · Basque Country Museum · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Ánima 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.

    3.3 km · Spanish professional school (higher college) of performing arts, dramatic art and theatre (drama school) · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    2.8 km · faculty of the University of the Basque Country · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Bilbao British Cemetery

    Bilbao British Cemetery is located in Sondika, in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country, northern Spain. The British cemetery was originally located on the coast of Biscay from about 1775, before being disaffected and relocated to its current position in 1929.

    2.5 km · cemetery in Sondika, Biscay · 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 Loiu

Airports
Bilbao (BIO), 3 km · Zaragoza (ZAZ), 240 km · Bordeaux–Mérignac (BOD), 245 km
Stations
Bilbao Airport, 2.7 km · Lutxana, 3.6 km · Astrabudua, 3.9 km · Elotxelerri station, 3.5 km · Larrondo train station, 3 km
  • Zaragoza → Loiu
    250 km · quickest by road, 4h 24m · €31–44
  • Ranón → Loiu
    254 km · quickest by road, 4h 28m · €31–43
  • Madrid → Loiu
    328 km · quickest by air, 4h 10m · €90–140
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Loiu

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 Loiu. 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

    884 km
  3. 03
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    896 km
  4. 04
    ChefchaouenMA

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    927 km
  5. 05
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    1,019 km

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

Around it

Next door to Loiu

Loiu is 6 km from Bilbao, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.