Monuments to visit Spain

The city hotel is located in a very beautiful building of the th century, the Palau de la Hundreds. The main façade is a Romanesque style, while the rear façade is neo-classical.

Built in the early th century, it is an emblematic work of the Romanesque civil architecture of Lleida. In the wedding room, the Gothic altarpiece of the th century presided over by the Virgin Mary. The municipal archives contain a real treasure, the Carta Pobla, the first constitution of the inhabitants of Lleida, which dates back to 1150.

This building was built in 1920, in the medieval style in keeping with the architectural group of the site. You will find it in the old town, in Zubi-Zaharra old bridge.

The only gate that remains of the wall that encircled Durango. It dates from xvi^e century.

Created in 1890, the Bilbao Stock Exchange was originally held in the Arriaga Theatre Hall. Since 1905, she has occupied this elegant building, whose facade is decorated with sculptures.

Stone Tower built around 1500 then rebuilt in various opportunities. His first youth, it retains the two starters with pointed arches and the windows on the upper floors. But the interest lies in the fact that the mother of saint Ignace de Loyola was born there.

See for its interior decoration and its superb portico.

The lighthouse Gorliz stands on the cape Billano, opposite the island of the same name. Built in 1990, it offers a beautiful view of the coast. 

The old roman road bear witness to the presence of the Romans in Encartaciones. Its layout dates from the 1st century and allowed the transportation of goods from Herrera de Pisuerga (Palencia) to Castro Urdiales (Cantabria).

Dating from the 17th century, it is a martyr of Renaissance style, one side, represents a Christ crucified and, on the other, a Virgin and Child.

This tower had to be in its time a very luxurious aristocratic house, because it has the air of a true urban 17th century palace. Its recent is discovered by chance, as it appeared, to the great surprise of people of the city, under the facade of a building that wanted to rehabilitate.

Probably dating from the foundation of the city, this bridge three arches connects banks of the river Cadagua. On one of them stands a tower which was to be at the time a watchtower. 

Built at the beginning of the 1920 th century, this huge building overlooking the beach has the old charm of the buildings of the seaside resorts of the s. Now transformed into a hospital, it keeps a nostalgic air.

Charming church of the sixteenth century, where most enthusiastic come to revere a relic of the holy apostle Peter. It is topped by a neo-gothic tower which already existed in the 11th century.

The town hall and town centre of Munguia were built in the th century. See in particular: the place des Charters, which celebrates the rights of the Basques and the Place Matxín in memory of the famous pirate of the same name.

Very fine collection of romanesque style, the 12th century. It is therefore one of the oldest religious buildings of Biscaye. It has a very large portico with a wooden roof covering all its perimeter.

Great Renaissance palace.

The Quadra, high, 20 m seems timeless way over the centuries. Built during the second half of xiv^e century, this tower of defence is remarkably well preserved. 

This romantic castle has a little resemblance to the bavarian castles. An enchanting place, with all its maze-like towers and its levels that bring back for us during knights. Also a park of great ecological wealth, with no fewer than 70 species of exotic and endemic trees. The head office at the origin of the chalk-lining of Butrón and the castle was built in the 13th century. In the 19th century, the castle was restored, skilfully and in the greatest respect for its medieval origins, by the architect Francisco de Cubas.

The "House of the Seven Fireplaces" is one of the only 16th century Renaissance-style buildings in the capital that has remained intact to this day. Although it has been redesigned several times, this magnificent building was built between 1574 and 1577 by the architect Antonio Sillero.Since 1980, this building (which really has seven chimneys and was declared a Historic and Artistic Monument in 1948) has become the headquarters of the Ministry of Culture.

A Catalan architect designed this modernist palace at the beginning of this century. The façade is decorated with floral and vegetal motifs and is one of the few examples of this architectural trend that can be photographed in Madrid. From the entrance, you can see the transparent dome and the majestic staircase railing. Originally, it was both a residence and a bank. Today, it is the headquarters of the Société générale des auteurs (SGAE).

The Palace of the Government of Vizcaya, built between 1890 and 1900, is one of the most remarkable examples of Basque eclecticism, which freely combines elements of classical architecture to better blur references. The interior of the building, richly decorated with marble, mirrors and works of art, also preserves beautiful frescoes in the Salón del Trono. After the construction of this palace, which marks the apogee of the eclectic style in the Basque country, it is the modernist current that will dominate the architecture of the city from 1900.