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At present it counts with near 230.000 inhabitants and is the capital of the Basque Country, but let's return to the past... The city was founded in 1181 (previously it was a settlement) on the high of a hill and as it was growin. If it is so tidy and aligned it is because permanecia strengthened inside a wall to defend itself from the assaults of Navarrese ones or Castilians depending in that it departs from the history. Nowadays it is one of the better preserved old towns.

“Open for restoration work” is the singular slogan of the guided visits to the restoration work on the Cathedral of Santa María. Visitors to the church are obliged to wear a protective helmet. This is an exceptional visit, which,with strict safety .

Is the most important Contemporany Museum of Bilbao

Villasuso's Palace is close to the church of San Miguel, in the known square of the Machete, in full historical hull of the city. His construction was arranged about 1539 by Martin of Salt mines, ambassador in the court of the emperor Carlos I. The building is of singular, U-shaped court, due to the fact that it was necessary to adapt it to the wall of the city (against the one that he constructed) and to the differences of the area.

The Fernando Buesa Arena is, without doubt, the ideal building to host important events of all kinds. The versatility of its installations and technical equipment allow the stage to be transformed in a very short time. The Fernado Buesa Arena hopes to become a mayor centre on the best European entertainment circuits. It will provide the scenario for large-scale spectacles, dance, song and family shows; concerts and theatre presentations.

It is the soccer field of the equipment of the city that nowadays limits in 2 ª Division B. It has capacity for 20.000 spectators.

Golf Jundiz is slightly more than a club than golf. Independently of that the golf is the principal engine, our club is a place of familiar scattering. A center of services for our users. Because of it we have thought about all the details in order that it is not absent you are welcome. The philosophy of our club is that all the members of the family learn and practise the golf, each one to his level with programs adapted to each one.

Ullíbarri-Gamboa's reservoir receives for time increasing and distinguished recreative use of the Natural Way of recognized social value, contributing to the Tourism of Nature a peculiar stamp of quality in the Historical Territory of Alava. Being one of the principal reservórios of water for human consumption in Alava and Biscay, Ullíbarri-Gamboa's reservoir gives life to an environment that has could take advantage of the changes that the human being introduces in the landscape.

Herederos del Marqués de Riscal continues to write its history in the 21st century with the development of the “Ciudad del Vino”, a project that marks a new era in the world of wine. Ciudad del Vino, located in Elciego (Alava), is a complex comprising the oldest winery of Rioja, the winery of Marqués de Riscal (1858) and a new building designed by the Canadian architect, Frank O. Gehry. The new complex houses a hotel, a spa of wine therapy, an exclusive restaurant, a meeting.

The Park of the Florida is considered to be a real botanical garden. It was designed in the 19th century according to the romantic commanding taste in the epoch, with creeks and bosquetes. It was conceived as an enormous botanical garden in which they can find strange and exotic botanical varieties proceeding from all the parts of the world geography with 95 species of trees and 79 of shrubs. It shelters the kiosk of music of the decade of 1890 and those of four kings visigodos.

Real chunk of nature inside the city of Vitoria. The zone is used by the vitorianos from the 12th century, it was a former pasture for the pasture of domestic animals re-turned into public park before the urban development push of the city. It is an authentic urban forest with more than 350 trees and several species of birds. The Paseo del Prado possesses more than 350 trees, there is for this one of the most important green spaces of the city.

The monastery of Our Lady of Estíbaliz is one of the jewels of the Romanesque one in Alava. One places to approximately nine kilometres this one of the same one, and to scanty thousand Argandoña's meters. His surroundings of forest and green and the sight on the lowlands alavesa, they give him a touch of magic, especially when he visits himself in quiet.

The Basque Museum of Contemporary Art ARTIUM, shelters in his interior one of the best collections of modern painting and also it gives content to the last pictorial trends with interesting temporary samples. Besides the pictorial value, the building of the ARTIUM also is characterized by his modern technologies of construction that surprise the visitor for the distribution and maximum utilization of the interior spaces.

Housed in the Palacio de Augusuri, in this museum you will find a fine selection of Spanish art dating from the 18th and 19th centuries and a colelction of artworks that trace the development of Basque art from 1850 to 1950.

With 600 square meters of surface, the room of fitness is organized in order that you realize different types of work, depending on the different zones in that the same one is distributed: