Erriberako Merkatua

This guide to Erriberako Merkatua in Bilbao starts on the night of August 26, 1983, when catastrophic rains sent the Nervion River bursting into the market itself, flooding its three floors one after another. It traces the building back to 1929, when architect Pedro Ispizua raised it without a single interior column beneath rows of Art Deco stained glass, and to the flood's toll across the Basque Country. That stained glass above the stalls survived what the water below could not.