Place
Plaza Nueva
Plaza Nueva, Pl. Nueva, 2, Ibaiondo, 48005 Bilbao, Vizcaya
Neoclassical arcaded square of sixty-four stone arches, once a seat of government, now full of pintxos bars.
This guide to Plaza Nueva in Bilbao opens with a number: sixty-five years, how long it took the city to finish this single square, laid out on Enlightenment ideas of order after Bilbao's tangled medieval lanes. It traces the grandest building on the square from its decades as the seat of Biscay's provincial government to the day officials packed up and left in 1890. The arcades locals call cuevas still host a Sunday market of coins, old books and stamps laid out on these same stones.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.