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130  NOR THERN SP AIN
BILBAO Aeropuerto
PLAZA DE 8 km (5 miles)
Vitoria City Centre SANTO DOMINGO
CALLE CORONACION
DE LA VIRGEN BLANCA
1 El Portalón
2 Museo de Arqueologia CALLE S. I. DE LOYOLA
y Naipes (BIBAT) S E M I N AR I O El Portalón CALLE BARRENKALE
C . D E L
3 Catedral de Santa María A L D A B E C A L L E PLAZA
DE
4 Palacio de Escoriaza-Esquibel CALLE CANTÓN STA. MARÍA BILBAO
PLAZUELA
5 Iglesia de San Miguel BADAIA DE ALDAVE Catedral de
CALLE CERCAS BAJAS Palacio de SA NTA MARÍ A CAL L L E PIN T O R E R Í A CALLE SAN VICENTE DE PAUL C
6 Plaza de la Virgen Blanca Santa María
Escoriaza-
Esquibel
0 metres 250 BIBAT CAL L E D E LA C UC H I L LER Í A
PLAZA DEL CALLE FUNDADORA DE LAS SIERVAS DE JESUS CALLE FRAYZACARIAS MARTINEZ CALLE S. ILDEFONSO A L L E
0 yards 250 CONDE DE C ALLE HER RE R IA
PEÑAFLORIDA CA LL E Z APAT ER ÍA C AL LE D E CO R R EIR A Artium
CALLE NU EVA DENTRO
V. GOICOCHEA
CALLE DE LA PROVINCIA San Miguel PLAZA DEL PLAZA DE CANTÓN S. FRANCISCO JAVIER D E F R A N C I A
PLAZA DE
VILLA SUSO
Estación de
Iglesia de
Autobuses
Casa del
Cordón
MACHETE
CALLE DEL PRADO PLAZA PLAZA DE FRANCISCO
ESPAÑA
CALLE SAN
DE LA VIRGEN Ayuntamiento
Catedral BLANCA C. PORTAL
de María Parlamento DE REY
Inmaculada Vasco CALLE
Parque de GRAL. ÁLAVA CALLE CALLE DE LOS FUE R OS OLAGUIBEL SAN SEBASTIÁN
La Florida PAMPLONA
For keys to symbols see back flap Museo de Armeria Estaciòn de RENFE POSTAS
LOGRONO
200m (220 yards)
8 Vitoria Duke of Wellington defeated Plateresque (see p29) patio.
the French. Around the plaza Around it is a charming area
Álava. * 244,000. ~ £ @
n Plaza de España 1, 945 16 15 98. are old houses with miradores of alleys linked by steep steps.
( Thu. _ Romería de San (glazed balconies). The city has two cathedrals.
Prudencio (27–28 Apr), Fiestas On the hillside above the The oldest is the Gothic Catedral
de la Virgen Blanca (4–9 Aug). plaza is the Gothic Iglesia de de Santa María, with a sculpted
∑ vitoria-gasteiz.org/turismo San Miguel. An outside niche west porch. Close by, in Calle
contains a statue of the Virgen Correría, a street of old houses,
Vitoria (Gasteiz), the seat of Blanca (White Virgin), Vitoria’s is El Portalón, a merchant’s
the Basque government, patron saint. A big festival (see house and hostel from the 15th
was founded on a hill – the p136) starts before her feast day, century. The building, which is
province’s highest point and the which is on 5 August. On the wall full of Basque country furniture
site of an ancient Basque town, of San Miguel facing the Plaza and art, is now a restaurant.
Gasteiz. Vitoria’s oldest part, del Machete there is a recess Among the city’s later archi-
El Campillo, was rebuilt in 1200 with a replica of the machete tectural gems are an arcaded
after a fire. The city later grew on which the city’s rulers swore street, Los Arquillos, and the
rich on the iron and wool trades. to uphold the laws or be slain. adjoining Plaza de España, also
The old town focuses on the The Old Town has several arcaded. They were built in the
Plaza de la Virgen Blanca, with its Renaissance palaces, including late 18th century to link the Old
monument to a battle fought the 16th-century Palacio de Town with the new quarter then
nearby in 1813, when the British Escoriaza-Esquibel, with its being built. South of the old town
is the Neo-Gothic Catedral Nueva
de María Inmaculada, begun in
1907 and finished in 1973.
E Artium
Calle de Francia 24. Tel 945 20 90 00.
Open Tue–Sun. &7 ∑ artium.org
Artium, the Basque Museum
of Contemporary Art, occupies
a striking white building and
contains one of Spain’s largest
collections of modern and
contemporary art. The focus
is mainly on Spanish artists like
The quiet Plaza de España in the centre of Vitoria Dalí, Miró, Tàpies and Chillida.
For hotels and restaurants in this region see pp563–4 and pp585–6
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