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Things to do in Gasteiz, Vitoria, ES

Bibat Museum Complex.
Bibat Museum Complex.

Vitoria-Gasteiz is the most modest of all the Basque cities. It doesn’t have a fancy beach like San Sebastian nor a Guggenheim Museum like Bilbao and because of this it is often overlooked. But don’t be so quick to skip it. Vitoria offers visitors many of the same things other Basque cities do but it also offers things they don’t.

Casa del Cordón (Cord House)
Casa del Cordón (Cord House)

La comúnmente llamada Casa del Cordón es una casa monumental o palacio situada en la calle Cuchillería del Casco Viejo de Vitoria (España). Debe su nombre al cordón de la orden franciscana del arco de una de las entradas gemelas de la casa.

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Fortified Wall.
Fortified Wall.

The wall of Vitoria was a walled enclosure fortified in the Middle Ages in the town of Vitoria. It was built in the late 11th century. It retains about half of the total volume, and was recovered in the early 21st century in a performance that received the award given by the organization Europa Nostra in 2010.

Http://www.Euskoguide.com/Places-Basque-Country/Spain/Vitoria-Tourism/
Http://www.Euskoguide.com/Places-Basque-Country/Spain/Vitoria-Tourism/

Tourism guide about Vitoria-Gasteiz, capital of the Spanish Basque Country. Features the old town & medieval wall, the cathedral, the Fine Arts Museum & more.

Museum of Fine Arts.
Museum of Fine Arts.

The Fine Arts Museum of Alava is located in the Augustin-Zulueta Palace in the nice Paseo de Fray Francisco, very next to the center of Vitoria-Gasteiz. A building of 100 years that emphasizes for its beauty surrounded from gardens, willows and staircases.

Plaza Nueva (New Square)
Plaza Nueva (New Square)

At the end of the 18th century next to it la Plaza de España or Plaza Nueva was built by the architect <a href="/pages/w/1424951614419660">Justo Antonio de Olaguibel</a> from Vitoria. Due to the construction of the new square the old one became a meeting point for the inhabitants of the city.

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Santa Maria Cathedral.
Santa Maria Cathedral.

The Cathedral of Santa María de Vitoria (Basque: Santa Maria katedrala, Spanish: Catedral de Santa María de Vitoria) is a Gothic-style, Roman Catholic cathedral located in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque country, Spain.

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Virgin Blanca Square.
Virgin Blanca Square.

Look! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Mary Poppins! No, it is actually Celedón, the protagonist of the Virgin Blanca Festival in Vitoria-Gasteiz, descending from the San Miguel Church over a packed crowd in the square below.

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