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Basque country holidays

August 2022

  • Bilbao Guggenheim website

    A local's guide
    A local’s guide to Bilbao, Spain: home of the Guggenheim – and so much more

    Gaizka Zuazo, director of the city’s school of design, knows where to find the best steaks, late-night bars and post-industrial cool

March 2022

  • Biarritz

    Biarritz curbs holiday lets to make way for locals

    Pays Basque landlords are told they must rent out homes for entire year

November 2021

  • Locals Guide to Biarritz Illustrations by Hennie Haworth market

    A local's guide
    A local’s guide to Biarritz, France: five great things to do

    Artist Isabelle de Joantho delights in the Atlantic city’s crashing waves, pinxtos, galleries and green spaces

April 2019

  • Chillida’s Arco de la Libertad (Arch of Freedom, 1993) outside the park’s Zabalaga farmhouse.

    Sculpted by time: Eduardo Chillida museum reopens in San Sebastián

    The road back for the revered Basque artist’s sculpture park has been long but, in a way, fitting for a man who accepted the impact of time on his work

September 2018

  • Montage image of six elements of Basque country food and drink.

    Bilbao baggings: the ultimate picnic road trip

    It’s no surprise that a region with so many Michelin-starred restaurants is also home to world-class food producers. Time to fill up the picnic basket for a Basque country food odyssey

September 2017

  • Jeff Koons Puppy outside the Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Gehry, Bilbao, Biscay (Vizcaya), Basque Country (Euskadi), Spain, Europe<br>Jeff Koons’ Puppy outside the Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Gehry, Bilbao, Biscay (Vizcaya), Basque Country (Euskadi), Spain, Europe

    Holiday guides
    Bilbao city guide: what to see plus the best restaurants, bars and hotels

    In the 20 years since the Guggenheim opened the Basque port city has not looked back – the museum acting as a magnet for great art and architecture as well as buzzing nightlife and restaurants

August 2017

  • Flysch in the Basque Geopark

    Experts' and readers' tips
    The best of northern Spain: readers’ travel tips

  • Gorgeous Galicia … the coastline around Praia do Picón

    Slow train through Spain: a narrow-gauge ride through España Verde

July 2017

  • Modern architecture in Bilbao.<br>Guggenheim Museum by Frank Gehry architect and Maman Sculpture by Louise Bourgeois. Bilbao. Bizkaia. Vizcaya. Basque Country. Spain

    Spain road trip: San Sebastián to Valencia

  • A sunhatted man holds two ice-cream cones as he walks along the promenade near the beach at San Sebastian, Spain

    Instagram snapshots
    On the beach in San Sebastián – in pictures

April 2017

  • Gure Toki, Bilbao

    10 of Bilbao’s best pintxos bars

  • Aerial view of Guernica in the Basque country, Spain.

    Guernica: the town that became a symbol for peace

November 2016

  • Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, waterfront view

    Why I love …
    ‘We like being special.’ Basque standard-bearer Ivan Jiménez Aira on Bilbao

    The once dirty, industrial city now revels in its modern architecture and enterprising outlook, while preserving its traditions and cuisine

October 2016

  • Dish of vegetales at Restaurante Casa Urola, San Sebastian, Spain.

    10 of the best restaurants and bars in San Sebastián – chosen by the experts

    The Basque city of San Sebastián has so many great places to eat it’s hard to narrow it down, so we’ve enlisted local chefs and foodies to select their favourites

August 2015

  • Julián López, known as El Juli, in the bullring in Vitoria, Spain.

    Bullfighting returns to San Sebastián after three-year ban

    Spanish city to hold first fight since newly elected coalition reversed a prohibition on the event

April 2015

  • The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.

    A history of cities in 50 buildings
    The Bilbao Effect: is 'starchitecture' all it’s cracked up to be? A history of cities in 50 buildings, day 27

    Every struggling post-industrial city has the same idea: hire a star architect (like Frank Gehry) to design a branch of a famous museum (like the Guggenheim), and watch your city blossom with culture. After all, it worked for Bilbao ... didn’t it?

January 2015

  • Bully for Pamplona … the new Museo Universidad Navarra

    On the radar
    Pamplona hoping for Guggenheim effect with new modern art museum

    The Museo Universidad de Navarra, a brand new gallery designed by the renowned Rafael Moneo, may lead to a stampede of art lovers every bit as important to Pamplona as the running of the bulls

December 2014

  • Didier Deschamps

    These Football Times
    The French Basque Country: a rugby heartland with world-class footballers

    Sport Network: The area has never produced a successful football club, but it has given France some of its most successful players

April 2014

  • Basque Country mountain biking/food tour

    Mountain biking (and eating) in the Basque country – in pictures

  • San Sebastian food after biking

    A foodie mountain biking ride to San Sebastián

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