What to see in the Uribe region near Bilbao: photos

Until a few decades ago it was difficult to imagine that city ​​of Bilbao, riding a Euskadi, could become a tourist attraction point.

The commitment to the construction of Guggenheim museum, and the simultaneous recovery of the estuary environment, until then an industrial area that was a source of great pollution, has led to this substantial change.

But the city of Bilbao also has a face rural that you can discover on your trip to the capital of Bizkaia.

Indeed, from the center of Bilbao, in a few minutes by car, or even by metro, you can discover beautiful rural corners that are distributed throughout the mountains and valleys that surround the capital.

What to see in the Uribe region

Specifically in the Uribe region, which I have had the opportunity to visit recently, and which extends across the northeast of Bilbao from the right bank of its estuary, you will find beautiful mountain scenery, but also the coast.

Si you climb Mount Jata, well in one 4×4 excursion Through the paths of its forests, or in your own car on a dirt and cement track that begins between Baquio and Arminza, you will have the best panoramic views of the aforementioned region.

From a height of about 600 meters you have views of the coast, with beautiful panoramic views of Bacchio and the nearby Gaztelugatxe hermitage, as well as the interior valleys. And if you like him active tourism, you will also have the possibility of descend from Jata by paraglider.

If you don't have a car, stop get to the coast from Bilbao you can use metro line 1 that ends in Plentzia, where you will be in just over half an hour.

You will go through of late, where you can make a very curious and interesting visit, the Iron Belt Memorial, which takes you to the time of the defense of the city of Bilbao during the Civil War.

The visit is completed by climbing a nearby mountain to see the trenches of the old defensive belt and enter a old machine gun nest or in a shelter.

If you are looking to enjoy a family beach, it is worth approaching the renovated Gorliz beach, where after the launch just four years ago of an important urban project, a road has been eliminated and buildings demolished to, in exchange, double the sandy surface and, above all, recover a natural area of ​​dunes.

And if you feel like walking along cliffs, I advise you to go hiking in the area of MenakozInter Blow y Barrel.

During that walk you will be able to see how practice surfing in the enormous waves that reach the coast of Sopela, or discover the curious geological formations of the area, such as the so-called Dragon's Tail.

But Uribe region has other surprises in store for you, such as butron castle.

This is the only one Bizkaia castle, which actually has its origins in a 15th century tower house, which in the 19th century became the property of the Marquis of Cubas, who converted it into a European-style castle.

Very close you can see what is perhaps the original tower house of the Middle Ages best preserved in Bizkaia, the Martiartu Tower.

En Bizkaia There are no castles (with the exception of the one mentioned in Butrón), but in your visit of the Uribe region You will find many rural farmhouses, ancestral houses, like those in larrabetzu, or palaces, like the Urgoiti palace, which now houses a hotel in the anointing.

Finally, a visit to this region around Bilbao It must also have as its protagonist the gastronomy.

In Uribe you can taste the most traditional dishes, such as a alubiada with their sacraments, the possibility of participating in a workshop stalk with Aitor Aurrekoetxea, even three-star cuisine Michelín of the Azurmendi restaurant de Eneko Atxa.

Photos Uribe region

Here photos of the different attractions that you can find in a excursion through the Uribe region, In the surroundings of Bilbao.