Biscay
Biscay is a province of the Basque Autonomous Community, heir of the ancient Lordship of Biscay, lying on the south shore of the eponymous bay. The capital and largest city is Bilbao.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: province of Spain with 1,150,000 residents
- Description: province of Basque Country, Spain
- Also known as: “Biscay Province”, “Bizkaia”, “Province of Biscay”, “Provincia de Bizkaia”, and “Vizcaya”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and San Mamés Stadium.
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Museum
Photo: Naotake Murayama, CC BY 2.0.
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art in Bilbao, Biscay, Spain. It is one of several museums affiliated to the Solomon R.
San Mamés Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Xabier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The San Mamés Stadium is an all-seater football stadium in Rafael Moreno Pitxitxi Kalea, Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. Inaugurated on 16 September 2013, the stadium replaced the "old" San Mamés as the home of Athletic Bilbao.
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum
Museum
The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum is an art museum located in the city of Bilbao, Spain. The building of the museum is located entirely inside the city's Doña Casilda Iturrizar park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bilbao and Basauri.
Bilbao
Photo: Archaeodontosaurus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bilbao, with a population of about 350,000, is the largest city in Spain's Basque Country. Bilbao is perhaps the best place in the world to experience the ancient culture and language of the Basque people, which has stubbornly held its own over thousands of years and is now completely unlike any modern-day culture in Europe.
Basauri
Town
Photo: Alan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Basauri is a major municipality of Biscay, in the Basque Country, an Autonomous Community in northern Spain. The town is a part of the Greater Bilbao conurbation, being only a few kilometers south of Bilbao.
Galdakao
Town
Photo: Galdacano, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Galdakao is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the Basque Country. It is located in the Greater Bilbao, in the valley of the Ibaizabal river, near the Ganguren mountain range. Galdakao is situated 6 km east of Biscay.
Biscay
- Category: Basque historical territory
- Location: Basque Country, Northern Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Biscay” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Biskaje”
- Albanian: “Provinca Biscay”
- Arabic: “بسقاية”
- Arabic: “بسكاية”
- Arabic: “بيسكاي”
- Aragonese: “Bizcaya”
- Aragonese: “Vizcaya”
- Armenian: “Բիսկայա”
- Asturian: “Bizkaia”
- Asturian: “Vizcaya”
- Azerbaijani: “Biskaya vilayəti”
- Basque: “Bizkaia”
- Belarusian: “Біская”
- Belarusian: “правінцыя Біская”
- Bengali: “বিসকে”
- Breton: “Bizkaia”
- Bulgarian: “Биская”
- Catalan: “Biscaia”
- Catalan: “Bizkaia”
- Catalan: “província de Biscaia”
- Catalan: “Província de Biscaia”
- Cebuano: “Bizkaia”
- Chinese: “Vizcaya”
- Chinese: “比斯开省”
- Chinese: “比斯開省”
- Croatian: “Biskaja”
- Czech: “Bizkaia”
- Danish: “Vizcaya”
- Dimli (individual language): “Biskay”
- Dutch: “Biskaje”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Biskajo”
- Estonian: “Biskaia provints”
- Estonian: “Biskaia”
- Extremaduran: “Viscaya”
- Finnish: “Biskaja”
- Finnish: “Vizcaya”
- French: “Biscaye”
- French: “Bizkaia”
- French: “Vizcaya”
- Galician: “Biscaia”
- Galician: “Bizkaia”
- Georgian: “ბისკაია”
- German: “Biscaya”
- German: “Bizkaia”
- German: “ES-BI”
- German: “Provinz Biskaya”
- German: “Vizcaya”
- Greek: “Βισκαΐα”
- Greek: “Μπισκάγια, Μπισκάια”
- Greek: “Μπισκάγια”
- Gujarati: “બિસ્કે”
- Hebrew: “ביסקאיה”
- Hindi: “बिस्के”
- Hungarian: “Bizkaia”
- Indonesian: “Biskay”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Biskay”
- Indonesian: “Vizcaya”
- Interlingua: “Biscaya”
- Irish: “An Bhioscáin”
- Italian: “Biscaglia”
- Japanese: “ビスカヤ”
- Japanese: “ビスカヤ県”
- Kannada: “ಬಿಸ್ಕೆ”
- Kazakh: “Бискайя”
- Kirghiz: “Бискай”
- Korean: “비스카야 주”
- Korean: “비스카야주”
- Korean: “비스카이아도”
- Ladin: “Biscaia”
- Ladino: “Provinsia de Vizkaya”
- Ladino: “Vizkaya”
- Latin: “Biscaia”
- Latvian: “Biskaja”
- Latvian: “Biskajas province”
- Lithuanian: “Biskajos provincija”
- Livvi: “Bizkaia”
- Luxembourgish: “Vizcaya”
- Malay: “Biscay”
- Malay: “Wilayah Biscay”
- Marathi: “बिस्के”
- Mazanderani: “بیسکای اوستان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Vizcaya”
- Mingrelian: “ბისკაიაშ პროვინცია”
- Northern Frisian: “Bizkaia (Prowins)”
- Northern Frisian: “Bizkaia”
- Northern Luri: “بیسکای”
- Northern Sami: “Vizcaya eanangoddi”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bizkaia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vizcaya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bizkaia”
- Norwegian: “Bizkaia”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Biscaia”
- Ossetian: “Бискайя”
- Pampanga: “Biscay”
- Persian: “استان بیسکای”
- Polish: “Biskaja”
- Polish: “Bizkaia”
- Polish: “Vizcaya”
- Portuguese: “Biscaia”
- Romanian: “Provincia Vizcaya”
- Russian: “Бискайя”
- Scots: “Biscay”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bizkaia”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Vizcaya”
- Serbian: “Покрајина Бискаја”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Biskaja”
- Sicilian: “Biscagghia”
- Sinhala: “බිස්කේ”
- Slovenian: “Biskaja”
- Slovenian: “Bizkaia”
- Slovenian: “provinca Vizcaya”
- Slovenian: “Vizcaya”
- South Azerbaijani: “بیسکای اوستانی”
- Spanish: “Bizkaia”
- Spanish: “Vizcaya”
- Spanish: “Señorío de Vizcaya” (historical)
- Swahili: “Mkoa wa Vizcaya”
- Swedish: “Biscaya”
- Tagalog: “Vizcaya”
- Tajik: “Бискай”
- Tamil: “பிஸ்கேய்”
- Telugu: “బిస్కే”
- Thai: “จังหวัดบิซกายา”
- Turkish: “Biskay”
- Ukrainian: “Біскайя”
- Ukrainian: “Біская”
- Ukrainian: “Віская”
- Urdu: “بیسکای”
- Uzbek: “Vizcaya”
- Venetian: “Bizkaia”
- Vietnamese: “Biscay”
- Vietnamese: “Bizkaia”
- Waray (Philippines): “Vizcaya”
- Welsh: “Biskaia”
- Welsh: “Bizkaia”
- Wu Chinese: “比斯开省”
- Yue Chinese: “比斯開省”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Santutxu and Bolueta.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Bilbao Eszena and Convent of the Encarnación, Bilbao.
Basque Country: Must-Visit Destinations
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