BBK LIVE 2013, Mark Lanegan is coming to town

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Ercilla Street loves rainy days

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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