Industrial and military heritage in Basque Country

At the Spanish amusement park Monte Igueldo, you can ride on the Scenic Railway, a nearly 100-year-old forerunner of the modern rollercoaster.

Monte Ulía was listed during the belle éopuqe as a must-see during a visit to the Spanish coastal city of San Sebastian.

The Castillo de la Monta atop the 123-metre-high Monte Urgull has watched over the Spanish coastal city of San Sebastián since the 12th century. 

With the publication of the novel ‘Don Quixote’ in the early seventeenth century, Spaniard Miguel de Cervantes wrote one of the classics of world literature. 

A century ago, between 1923 and 1924, the Grandes Molinos Vascos was one of the first reinforced concrete structures on the banks of the Nervión River in the Spanish Basque country.

In 1900, shipbuilder Euskalduna settled in the old docks of Bilbao, Spain. Thanks to World War I, the shipyard underwent massive expansion.

Iron ore has been mined on the banks of the Nervión River since the 15th century. The soil there is veined with galleries from the various iron ore mines, including San Luis. 

Alberto Palacio, a Spanish engineer and architect, made history in 1893 when his design of a suspension bridge was put into use over the Nervión. This Spanish river flows into the Bay of Biscay near the port of Bilbao.

Spanish engineer and inventor Leonardo Torres Quevedo erected the world's first cable car suitable for passenger transport in 1907.

In 1959, an eighty-metre-high blast furnace rose from the ground in Sestao, a municipality about five kilometres from the Spanish port city of Bilbao.