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San Sebastian and Bilbao are among the ten Spanish cities with higher levels of tourism competitiveness, a classification that lead Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia.These are some of the conclusions of Tourism Competitiveness Monitor UrbanTUR 2012 conducted by the Alliance for Tourism Excellence, Exceltur, a document that measures the position of the 20 major urban destinations in Spain.San Sebastia...
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Featuring contemporary artworks presented alongside 17th-century paintings, Riotous Baroque: From Cattelan to Zurbarán. Tributes to Precarious Vitality attempts to extricate the concept of the baroque from established clichés and traditional perceptions. With a clear shift away from pomp, ornament, and gold, the exhibition focuses on the baroque as a celebration of the...
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Vitoria Azkena Rock closes its bill with Black Crowes,The Enemy, The Socks, Quaoar and The Sheepdogs.The Azkena Rock of Vitoria, held on 28 and 29 June at the usual venue Mendizabala, has closed down its lineup with the addition of Enemies, The Socks, Quaoar and The Sheepdogs, who join The Gaslight Anthem , Walking Papers, JJ Grey & Mofro, Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats, Heaven's Basement, Hor...
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El Arenal will host close to the Nervion, between the 27th and 29th June, a urban beach that will count with solarium,jacuzzi,bar and even an area dedicated to activities. It’s called Bilbao Beach and takes part of the agenda made by the Town Hall for the summer season.
The space will be inaugurated 27th June at 11am and will have an uninterrupted schedule until 29th June ...
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White Night, a group of shows that are organized to celebrate the founding of Bilbao, it will be focused this year in the lighting of the most emblematic buildings of the town. The acts will start at 8.30 pm next 15th Saturday and will be over at 2am of the following day.
It will be several works along the city during the night, for instance, the french artist Patrice Warrener...
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Once again , best jazz music ever will be played at the beaches, squares and streets of the Basque Country during the month of July. Over the month will take place several jazz festivals; in Getxo (3-7 July), in Vitoria (16-20 July) and in San Sebastián (24-28 July).
Some of the artists invited to these not to be missed dates are: Wynton Marsalis, Jamie Cullum and Elvis Costello.
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The Mayors Forum has become one of the most important and biggest platforms in the world for city leaders to come together to discuss urban issues. The fourth Mayors Forum in Bilbao is expected to attract more Mayors from Europe, Latin American and North American cities. It will also cover issues of relevance and interest to these regions from urban rejuvenation, economic resilience, to sustaining...
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Bilbao Airport will operate direct flights to Oslo, it will occurs twice a week with the company Norwegian Air Shuttle.Aircraft Boeing 737 from this company is going to connect Bilbao with the Norwegian capital on Wednesday and Saturday.
Is a "very attractive" new because Norwegian market is thought to have a "great potential" . Aena also claims that this connection also opens the...
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The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum hosts a retrospective exhibition of the artist Francisco Durrio , bringing together about 200 pieces, which include 72 works of artist friends and, especially, by Paul Gauguin. It can be seen until September 15.More than 200 works including paintings, ceramics, sculpture and metalwork.
Francisco Durrio was a great artist, meticulous and perfectionist, slow prod...
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RIDING BILBAO
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We offers you a fun visit for all the family. During the tour, apart from the bike ride and visit the main tourist spots in Bilbao, activities and games will be made to spend an unforgettable day.
The length of the activity is 3 hours
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Once again, Romotur took part of the last Imex in Frankfurt. We were there the whole fair attending professional’s doubts and requests.
Imex Tourism Trade, is a worldwide exhibition for incentive travel, meetings and events. It provides outstanding business opportunities for exhibitors and buyers alike, with the hosted bu...
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The world's largest circus company returns to Bilbao to present until June 16 its new show Kooza, in a large tent that has been deployed on the esplanade of Zorrozaurre.It took nine days to ride the circus and it will take about three days to remove it.
The Grand Chapiteau can accommodate about 2,600 people. It consists of 18 pieces of fire retardant vinyl coated canvas. It me...
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The bombing of Gernika has in the famous Picasso painting its best reflection in the art’s world. However, since the occurrence of the barbaric attack to the village, and with Gernika as a reference, there have been many artists who have tried to translate its symbolism through their works.
Until 13 th October Euskal Herria Museum in Gernika shows some of these works, performed by a...
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Nex September, from 20th to 28 th, it will take place the 61th edition of the International Film Festival San Sebastian and to illustrate it its poster has been chosen recently.
Toni Pontí, the author of the poster, claimed during the presentation: "I wanted to look back and give that fresh, colorful, free from prejudice and glorious pop of the sixties decade”.
An imag...
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The connection between Bilbao and Istanbul, operated by Turkish Airlines, will be daily starting next October, the company reported in a statementTurkish Airlines offers four weekly flights to Istanbul, they are recording an average occupancy of 70%.The Turkish company opened its connecting Bilbao-Istanbul in May last year.
"All the figures show that it was a right decision to start...
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Bilbao will host the international festival of video games 'Fun & Serious Game Festival', which in its third edition, will be held from November 25 to December 1, according to the organization.
The event will bring together leading companies dedicated to video games and Bilbao will be consolidated as the European capital of this sector.The competition aims to reward the best gam...
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EN VIVO 2013 will be held in Rivas Vaciamadrid, Barcelona and Billbao. It will be lead by The Offspring.
The Toy Dolls, Shikari Sound System, El Drogas, Berri Txarrak, Rulo y la Contrabanda, Mago de Öz, Fermin Muguruza Kontrakantxa and Soziedad Alkoholika are other artists confirmed for this fourth edition
The festival will take place from 29 to 31 August in the Auditorio Miguel Rio...
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The filmmaker Park Chan-wook has arrived in Bilbao to present 'Stoker.'This director is considered one of the most influential filmmakers of the fantastic genre.
His face is not yet well known in the Western world, but it sure it will be famous soon. South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook has arrived in Bilbao as a special guest of the XIX edition of FANT, which will kick off 3th&nbs...
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The called bible of economic journalism which is also one of th best selling journals in the United States , The Wall Street Journal ,devoted a long article to San sebastián, "a city to enjoy," signed by Bruce Palling.
The atricle claims that the Zurriola is a surf destination at the same level as the ones located in Australia or Brazil. Choose the San Telmo Museum as a pla...
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The museum dedicated to designer will host an exhibition of creations inspired by the designer .
Candela Cort (Madrid, 1959) will present some of his creations in the Balenciaga Museum from May 3. A show inspired by the designer of Getaria, and further including hats, photograph of some of the works of the designer, and 29 small mannequins. The exhibition, in the hall of the museum, will be ope...