Take this walk along
Ercilla Street in a rainy day from Mazarredo Boulevard to Moyua
Circus... I mean, Alameda Mazarredo and Plaza Moyua. Bilbao isn't a
city full of great monuments like many cities in Spain. No Roman
aqueducts, no arab palaces here. That's why we had to buy that huge
titanium castle, Frank Gehry's contribution to the appeal of
the city. The beauty of this place lies in those everyday surroundings
where people's lifes take place. This is just another little
bourgeois city of Europe grown into one of those conurbations
that melt diferent locations into one big map. Bilbao has climbed the
mountains that encircle but in the mind of many of it's inhabitants
it's still made of it's two old cores: the medieval one and the
XIXth, Xxth Century one. Ercilla Street runs at the heart of the
latter. There are many interesting buildings here, traditional ones,
moderns ones, old and new. The street still has the atmosphere of
something coming from the growth of the Ensanche, that is, the city
expansion that jumped to the other side of the river from the Old
Quartier. That was quite a long time ago...
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