San Nikolas eliza

This guide to San Nikolas eliza in Bilbao follows a small fishermen's church from its origins as a riverside hermitage dedicated to the sailors' patron saint, through its rebuilding from 1743 by architect Ignacio de Ibero into a Baroque church with twin towers and five carved altarpieces from Madrid. It then turns to 1812, in the middle of the war against Napoleon, when Biscay's provincial assembly gathered inside to swear an oath to a new constitution the king would soon try to undo, and to the wars and lightning strike that later closed its doors.