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CORRECTIONS ARE THE USEFUL ONES
Corrections first: what has changed since the page was written
What is worth pointing out
Corrections, above everything. A bus line changes its stop, a lift goes out of service, a museum rearranges its galleries, a bridge closes its walkway for repairs. If you have just been and something here did not match, that is worth more than any amount of desk research.
Especially useful: anything about arriving and moving around, such as the airport bus, the Metro and tram, the Artxanda funicular and the public lifts, the Bizkaia Bridge gondola, and the booking arrangements at the Guggenheim, which are the parts of this guide most likely to go stale.
What this is not for
It is not a booking service. This site sells nothing and books nothing, and cannot get you a room, a table, a match ticket or an opera seat; those are booked with the operators themselves.
It cannot tell you what something costs or when it opens: no price or opening time appears anywhere on this site, because the operator is the only source that is right on the day. In an emergency anywhere in Spain, call the European emergency number, 112.
The neighborhoods
If a page describes a place, a street or a piece of the city's history in a way that is wrong or unfair, that matters here too, and it will be corrected. This guide does not label any neighborhood as good or bad, because such labels are rarely accurate and never useful.
Photographs
Every photograph on this site is credited beside it, and every credit links to the file's own page on Wikimedia Commons, where its author, its license and its history are recorded.
Photographs are replaced when a better or more recent one of the same place turns up, and captions are corrected when they describe the frame wrongly.
Three ways on
Where to next
- An airport over the hill, trains into AbandoGetting HereThe airport at Loiu, the bus station beside San Mamés, the railway termini at Abando and Concordia, and the ferry from Portsmouth at Santurtzi — which to use and how each reaches the center.Open the page →
- A museum, an opera season and a stadiumBooking AheadWhat genuinely needs a ticket in advance — the Guggenheim on busy days, the opera season at the Euskalduna, a match at San Mamés — and what never does.Open the page →
- Euskara, and the signs in two languagesBasqueBasque is co-official with Spanish here: what it is, why the street signs are in both, the words you will meet on menus and maps, and the academy that keeps the language on the Plaza Nueva.Open the page →