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Description
Euskalduna Jauregia - Palacio Euskalduna S.A. is a public company owned by the Provincial Council of Bizkaia. Designed by Federico Soriano and Dolores Palacios, as a constantly evolving ship that emerges from the dock where the Euskalduna Shipyard once stood, the Palace was awarded the Enric Miralles Prize in the 2001 VI Spanish Architecture Biennial. It is a large multifunctional complex of 58,200 square meters, located in the center of Bilbao and very close to the international airport.
It hosts numerous activities of an economic-business, academic, political, institutional, social and cultural nature. The ABAO Opera Season, one of the most important and prestigious in Spain and Europe, takes place here, and it is also the home of the Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa (BOS), a magnificent musical institution founded in 1920, which gave its first concert in 1922. The building combines spaces dedicated to meeting and performance activities (Auditorium, congress and meeting rooms, boardrooms, offices, foyers, and a splendid Exhibition Hall) with service areas for storage, dressing rooms, rehearsal rooms, etc.
Euskalduna Palace features wide, clearly signposted access routes and interior circulation areas, with eight lifts distributed throughout the building, as well as a dedicated lift connecting the main entrance to the extension area. All floors have adapted toilets for people with reduced mobility, in addition to accessible cubicles within the general restrooms. The main auditorium and four rooms with fixed seating offer reserved spaces for wheelchair users, while in rooms with movable seating the allocation depends on the event organiser; all venues provide XL-sized seats for people with special needs. As layouts may vary depending on the event, visitors are advised to contact the Palace in advance to confirm accessibility conditions and available support services.
Features and services
Accessibility policy
- Is there an accessibility certificate?
- Yes
Specialized support for people with functional diversity
- Has staff received specific training in dealing with people with functional diversity?
- Yes
- Is this staff easy to identify?
- No
Communicationo adaptation
- Is an internet point with a Jaws voice system available?
- No
- Are magnetic loop systems available?
- Yes
- Is information available regarding facilities and services in Braille?
- No
Personal Assistance and lending of technical aids
- There is a service for lending technical mobility aids
- Yes
- Required personal assistance services are available
- Yes
- Are assistance dogs/guide dogs allowed?
- Yes
Environment accessibility
- Is the establishment in a location with significant urban barriers or where there are problems to get access to motor vehicles?
- Yes
- Can the establishment be accessed with a motorised vehicle?
- Yes
Public transport
- Availability of public transport
- Yes
- Type of transport
- Bus
- Line: Bilbobus: Líneas 28, 56, 62.
- Distance: 150m
- Tramway
- Station: Euskalduna
- Distance: 20m
- Underground
- Line: San Mamés
- Station: 1
- Distance: 400 mm
- Bus
Parking
- Parking available inside
- Yes
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Own indoor parking spaces
- Location / Address
- Avenida Abandoibarra 4
- Are there any appropriately marked reserved spaces?
- Yes
- Number of spaces
- 16
- Difficulty of access and mobility inside
- No
Locker
- Is part of this 0.70 - 0.85 m high?
- Yes
Vertical mobility
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Elevators
- Does it have at least one lift?
- Yes
- Is access available to all floors?
- Yes
- Automatic opening
- Yes
- Exit and entry at ground level with no height differences
- Yes
- Depth > 1.40 m
- Yes
- Door width
- ≥ 0,90 m
- Area outside the cabin with the possibility of turning 1.50 m
- No
- Keypad at 1 - 1.30 m
- Yes
- Acoustic floor signage
- No
- Accessible alarm systems
- Yes
- Automatic control and closing systems
- Yes
- Are there any other elevators?
- Yes
WC
- There is at least 1 service that can be considered as PRM accessible
- Yes
- Access door
- width of 0.80 - 0.89 m
- Outward opening sliding or swing door
- Yes
- You can make a 1.50 m circle inside
- Yes
- Washbasin without a base. 0.80M high
- Yes
- Adjustable height washbasin
- No
- Single lever or push button tap
- Yes
- Toilet height of 0.40 - 0.50 m
- Yes
- Support rails in the restroom
- Yes
- Two bars. At least one is folding
- Yes
- Distress call system
- Yes
- Call system in the entire WC
- No
- Free front space of 0.80 x 1.20 m for all toilets
- Yes