Points of interest
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Barakaldo workers’ route
The remains of its past make Barakaldo the ideal place to see the history of the industrialisation of Bizkaia.
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Orconera-Lutxana moveable industrial heritage warehouse
Orconera Lutxana Bilduma is the Basque government’s moveable industrial heritage warehouse.
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Munoa Estate and Mansion
The Munoa Estate is a bourgeois manor located in Barakaldo, reformed in the French style by architect Ricardo Bastida.
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Lutxana train station
It was built by Compañía del Ferrocarril Hullero de La Robla a Valmaseda in 1902 as the line's last stop.
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Iron ore loading docks on the estuary
The loading docks on the estuary are the final link in the chain of a complex transport system that took valuable iron ore from mines to the ships, to then ...
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Estuary motorboat ferries
The need to allow large ships to sail into the centre of Bilbao made connecting the two sides of the estuary quite difficult, and this problem was only ...
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Desierto-Barakaldo train station
The Bilbao - Barakaldo - Portugalete - Santurtzi line was designed by Charles Vignoles in 1858 to lengthen the Bilbao-Tudela railway and connect it with ...
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Ilgner building
It is the only remaining Altos Hornos de Vizcaya (AHV) building dedicated to production left in Barakaldo.
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Iron labyrinth in Sestao
Along the workers’ route “The Iron Labyrinth: 5 Kilometres of Labour History” you can discover first-hand experiences of the birth of industrial Sestao: ...
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Blast furnace no. 1 Altos Hornos de Vizcaya
Blast Furnace No. 1 is the most important legacy remaining of the emblematic Altos Hornos de Vizcaya, the largest iron and steel business in southern Europe ...
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Workers’ quarters in Sestao
Sestao's housing problem during industrialisation was critical. The first transplants sublet in housing blocks erected around the factories in the heat of ...
