Bilboko Donejakue Katedrala

This guide to Bilboko Donejakue Katedrala walks from the carved merchant faces on its buttresses back to the small pilgrim shrine that stood here before Bilbao existed, destroyed by fire in 1374 and rebuilt over more than a century into a Gothic church with three naves. It follows the building into the 1800s, when a booming, iron-rich Bilbao decided its old parish church needed a grander face. Pilgrims still pass through the Door of the Angel on the Camino de Santiago, tracing a route walkers and merchants alike have followed for eight hundred years.