Doña Casilda Iturrizar parkea

This guide to Dona Casilda Iturrizar parkea in Bilbao is built around the bronze woman who watches over its duck pond, a widow who took charge of her own fortune after her husband's death and began giving much of it away. It traces industrial Bilbao's lack of green space in the late 1800s, her donation of this land, and the decade of work by engineer Juan de Eguiraun and architect Ricardo de Bastida that followed. She died in 1900, years before the park she funded was finished.