Tourist attraction
Palacio Euskalduna
Abandoibarra Etorb., 4, Abando, 48011 Bilbao, Bizkaia
Ship-shaped concert and conference hall rising on a former shipyard dock, home to opera on Europe's largest stage.
This guide to Palacio Euskalduna in Bilbao starts on the shipyard floor in the 1950s, where workers stopped their machines each morning just to watch a young worker named Carola walk to work, and named the yard's dockside crane after her. It follows the crane through decades of hoisting steel hulls and the shipyard's protest-filled closure in the 1980s, after nearly a century of shipbuilding on this spot. Look across the water for the old crane still standing watch as you listen.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.