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Travel Guide to Bilbao, Spain

Bilbao is a wonderful city located on the north of Spain. It’s worth mentioning that this town is the administrative center of Vizcaya. This is one of the largest cities of Spain. It perfectly combines large number of industrial complexes and amazing number of magnificent entertainment centers.
The most popular and widely visited place in the city is Nervion embankment, where you can visit best discotheques, bars and magnificent restaurants. The city is decorated in old style, but regardless of this fact this is a well-developed and modern place with high quality infrastructure.
Clean and cozy streets of Bilbao traditionally attract tourists. Here you will also see numerous green parks and widest selection of places of interest for any taste. Main sights of Bilbao include the Museum of Fine Arts, San Anton Bridge, the Museum of Guggenheim, Santiago Cathedral, the statue of Don Diego de Ar, Dona Casilda Park, and more.
A chain of underground stations were opened in this city in 1995. This helped to get rid of traffic jams and make this city even more beautiful. You can also use other convenient types of transport as tramways or railroad.
In the end we should mention that there are two main languages in Bilbao – Spanish and Basque. This city is a wonderful place for rest. It’s beautiful, accurate, modern, and well-developed; it has many sights and places of interest, so there’s no wonder why each year Bilbao attracts maximum number of tourists who want to have a great rest and enjoy observing cultural values.
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Bilbao: Major facts

Time zone 2:48 AM, GMT +1
Number of inhabitants 350,000
Local currency Euro (EUR), €1=100 cents
Working hours Most shops stay open from 10.00–13.30 and 16.00-20.00 Mon to Fri.
Banks stay open 08.30–14.00, Mon to Fri and 09.00–13.00 on Sat.
Related sites http://www.bilbao.net/bilbaoturismo
http://www.bizkaia.net
http://www.basquecountrytourism.com
http://www.spain.info
Major newspapers and journals El Correo (national)
Deia (regional)
El País (national)
Emergency telephone numbers Emergency Police: 092
Fire brigade: 080
Emergencies: 112

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