Arriaga Theater

          After a fire ended its predecessor, which ran the year 1890 when Villa of Bilbao inaugurated this emblematic building, comes as much acting the as from social point of contact like of theater.

          If we walked by the bridge of the Sandy ground, next to him we will be with this work of the architect Joaquin Rucoba who took the name, in 1902, of the illustrious composer Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga, been born in the bilbaina Brief street and that shortly will give also name to the future Palace of the Music of Bilbao.

          By its construction it was inspired by the Opera of Paris and before had to be recovered in 1987 after the terrible damages suffered by the floods of four years.

          This architectonic jewel continues counting nowadays on furniture of the time, whereas the most modern touch is in the dressing rooms, that they welcome in artists of excellent names and scenic arts hat include from the traditional ballet to "performances", spectacles all of them made so much by state companies as international 

Stock-market

          To speak of stock-market not is solely to speak of building of great wealth ornamental, but of place of that thousand of people do use by his ample and different supplies, since she includes scopes that go from seats of several associations, until an office of the Publication and document record department Municipal.

          This way, conferences, courses, information... of everything have capacity in this place that at the moment is the Civic Center of the Old Helmet.

          The palace that nowadays arrives until us and that was constructed on a previous structure whose origin Average data of century XVIII can be located in the Age and is watched from its watched eternal entrance over and the perpetual one of the Virgin of Begoña, and not only by the hornacina that is in its entrance, but because, like anecdote, it is possible to indicate that the only site is this door of all the Old Helmet from where the Basilica of Begoña can be seen.

          Also the floods made an impression on this building that, in spite of its name, never lodged no type of stock-exchange activity. Thus, this denomination originated because from second half of century XVIII it was a place destined to a commerce of ironworks with the indicated name, which was developed indeed until the 1983 floods.

          In our days, the Civic Center lodges to numerous cultural and social associations that develop to their activity in their classrooms and halls. Also the mentioned office to the Publication and document record department works in same the most important Youthful Information center of Bilbao, welcoming in addition Municipal.

Municipal Library

          Nowadays, this building located in number 4 of the Bidebarrieta street  has become one of the key pieces of the cultural surroundings of Bilbao. And it is that it is not only possible to emphasize it to contain the Municipal Library and the Municipal Historical File, that is not little, but also to lodge multitude of parallel activities like conferences, courses or varied cultural days.

          Original of Severino Achúcarro and contruida between 1888 and 1890 in eclectic style, the first news that arrive at us from the Library of Bidebarrieta date from 1877, year in which Pablo de Alzola, at that time mayor of Bilbao, made a call to all the citizens to donate books and to create this library, that firstly was in the building of the Consistorial House.

          Finally, the City council would destine east place to its present activities in 1956 and, with the exception of the five years that stayed closed by the flaws and later repair of the damages of the floods, always he has been clear referring a cultural one for the bilbainos, as much before as after its restoration recently more than one decade.

Market of the Shore

          Far from being a mere market, we are before a place that has become one of the main props within the cultural scope of Villa. And it is that for as soon as a pair of months, the superior part of this covered municipal market - greatest of all Europe -, located in the place where formerly the daily perecederos product market formed by means of tenderetes, one has become shelter of important cultural and social acts.

          Occupied by approximately 500 positions that offer best fresh products in fish, fruits, vegetables and all type of meats, it is possible to emphasize the denominated zone of the "Villagers", where agriculturists of the towns of around Bilbao offer vegetables and vegetables of season that daily gather of their orchards.

          Therefore, agricultural products, of the sea and the cattle ranch intermingle with exhibitions and other cultural events that, in addition to by their nature in himself, are more attractive if they fit by the surroundings in which they are framed, illuminated by the clarity that through the cristaleras of the superior part of the market us makes more tempting, if it fits, visit these events.  

City council

          In front of a sculpture of Oteiza placed at the end of the bridge of the City council, perrons take step to us to the main dependencies of the bilbaino Consistorio, constructed on a rectangular plant, in which Joaquin Rucoba, after nine years of works, made an eclectic building of neobaroque taste. It is possible to indicate, at anecdotario level, that the fifth step that gives us entrance is the quivalente to the measurement of the level of laughs it.

          In addition to its beauty at first sight, who visit the interior of the building will remain catched by the beauty and the exotismo of the Main Hall or Arab Hall, always illuminated by originating rays through its great row of balconies.