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Santurtzi

Santurtzi is a port city and municipality in the province of Biscay in the autonomous community of the Basque Country in northern Spain.

Santurtzi
Santurtzi · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Santurtzi is a port city and municipality in the province of Biscay in the autonomous community of the Basque Country in northern Spain. It is located in the Bilbao Abra bay, near the mouth of the Nervión river, on its left bank, 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) downriver from Bilbao and forms part of the Bilbao metropolitan area. It has 46,530 inhabitants.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Santurtzi

4 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.

    1.4 km · bridge · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    2.8 km · football stadium in Sestao, Spain · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Campo Municipal de Gobela

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

    2 km · stadium in Getxo, Spain · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    2.5 km · football stadium in Getxo, 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 Santurtzi

Airports
Bilbao (BIO), 10 km · Asturias (OVD), 244 km · Zaragoza (ZAZ), 247 km
Stations
Port of Bilbao, 2.8 km · Algorta, 2.9 km · Neguri, 2.4 km · Gobela, 2 km · Aiboa, 2.8 km
  • Ranón → Santurtzi
    246 km · quickest by road, 4h 14m · €30–41
  • Zaragoza → Santurtzi
    257 km · quickest by road, 4h 23m · €32–45
  • Madrid → Santurtzi
    329 km · quickest by air, 4h 24m · €100–160
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Santurtzi

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 Santurtzi. 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

    828 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    881 km
  3. 03
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    902 km
  4. 04
    ChefchaouenMA

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    927 km
  5. 05
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    1,027 km

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

Around it

Next door to Santurtzi

Santurtzi is 11 km from Bilbao, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.