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Thursday, April 23, 2026
Bilbao (de) Breifing: Let’s be upfront….…they are!
Bilbao isn’t Spain (nor France). Miguel our tour guide took us on a walk around the old city.
But it was his passion, commitment and connection to Bilbao and the Basque region that took the history of Bilbao to its political reality. The buildings speak politics and independence.
The sense of history, culture, literature and art was embedded over millennium in what can be best described as a political community movement that over many generations has struggled for independence.
Bilbao is the capital of the Basque region that encompasses 7 provinces 3 of which are in France and is the largest city in the Province of Biscay and the Basque Country.
The city has a population of 350,000 and the Bilbao metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million.
The Basque Country is not a independent country, but rather a region divided into the Basque Autonomous Community (Euskadi) and Navarre in Spain, and the Northern Basque Country. It collects its own taxes.
The Basque region and Bilboa has a revolutionary history especially during the Franco dictatorship that banned the language, the art, the culture, the literature and the history.
And to ensure the Basque independence survives the pintxos is the. response to tapas.
Long live the Pintxos!
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