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And speaking of Taranto, for a long time more than anyone has indicated in Bilbao a model to follow. In fact, the Basque town, formerly capital of the English steel industry, has responded to the crisis, environmental and employment, in a far-sighted. Obviously, the birth of Guggenheim Museum in 1997 , whose landmark building was designed by Frank Gehry, impressed with a strong need to change that in a few years has turned gray and one of the most polluted cities in Europe, in a world-renowned cultural center. And to think that many at the time of construction of the museum complex, considered the investment "a waste of public money"! Following a
article dedicated to the Basque city of the Republic and published in Travel (you can also find links to the photo gallery):

Bilbao. The hangover after the art

Dario Pappalardo

Since then

Guggenheim, the resurrection, with strokes of superstars, the Basque capital. Which now enjoys the party with strokes of canapés and glasses of wine

At midnight, fast sailing around the Guggenheim. In shorts, shirt and running shoes, dribbling the huge spider by Louise Bourgeois, with an eye to the river and another with colorful balloons of Jeff Koons. In Bilbao, the extremists of jogging meet at all hours. Also because the banks of the Nervión is never dark. And the open space around the museum by Frank O. Gehry is at the same track and display perfect perennial in the open. Fourteen years ago, when the Guggenheim opened, no one wanted.

seems impossible and yet it is this: "A waste of public money," were outraged citizens. That "waste" has opened on tourism in the city of steel that was the stage outcast on the path to Santiago de Compostela. He has swept away years of disposal industry, unemployment and abandoned shipyards. In Spain, the unemployed are the twenty per cent in the Basque country to eight. "Guggenheim effect", they call it. Of which an engine - as well as contemporary art container asymmetric signed Gehry - even the subways of Norman Foster (the "fosterinos") that lead to the mouth of the Atlantic. And again, the airport and bridge by Santiago Calatrava, Arata Isozaki towers, the Alhóndiga, the multi-purpose hall (with media center, swimming pool, gym, restaurant) that Philippe Starck has converted from a stock of wine early twentieth century, and the rest to come. Because the cranes are in constant motion: new luxury apartments located not far from the Guggenheim Museum, Zaha Hadid and raises the industrial area of \u200b\u200bZorrozaurre. Each superstars, if he had not understood, in Bilbao is welcome.

"Bilbaino I look back and think about the future," said Susanne, who arrived here from Monaco of Bavaria in 1997 and has gone more. What would become her husband introduced himself saying, "I'm English, yes, but especially the Basque." To understand what it means must take the tram to the Casco Viejo, the old city spared from the bombs of the Civil War. Here, among the fishermen's cottages with verandas overlooking sull'Arenal restored and the Teatro Arriaga - dedicated to the temple of local Mozart - Bilbao defends the identity of the Basque capital. In the morning, the trucks are cleaning the streets sprinkled with lemon essence. The way they shake and riallargano around the churches. A few steps from the San Nicola di Bari, played pelota: young and old bounce the ball on the pediment of latex and leather, the local indoor field. The Plaza Nueva is located dell'Euskaltzaindia, the Academy of the Basque language, which preserves one of the oldest languages \u200b\u200bin Europe.

under the arcades of the square, where they will remain retired with black hats and young couples with strollers, overlooking the cafes and guesthouses triumphs of pintxos: more than canapes, complex architecture of each flavor and color. Over the weekend, the Bilbaino go from bar to bar, pintxo in pintxo of glass in glass: Strictly txacoli, light white wine. They eat and drink a lot. So then there's sport: the bicycle with which Artxanda climb the mountain, which offers the perfect view, surfing and jogging in the summer for all seasons.