Gurutzeta/Cruces

Gurutzeta/Cruces is a borough in Barakaldo, Biscay, Basque Country.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and San Mamés Stadium.

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Museum

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.

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

Photo: Zarateman, CC0.

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 Portugalete.

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.

Portugalete

Town

Photo: Zarateman, CC0.

Portugalete is a town lying to the west of Bilbao in the province of Biscay in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, northern Spain. The town has 45,294 inhabitants as of 2021 and is part of Bilbao's metropolitan area.