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New Seat
We would have ourselves to overcome
until the second decade of century XIX to beable to be present at the construction of the New
Seat, a
place with intrinsic enchantment that counts on an extension of 3,400
square meters and that was inaugurated in 1851, becoming this way the
seat with more wall-plate of Bilbao.
El
cuadrángulo que ocupa presenta 18x15 arcadas de medio punto sobre
pilares cuadrados y columna dórica adosada, mientras que el corredor
cubierto perimetral tiene 4,95 metros de anchura.
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Hoy
en día podríamos referirnos a esta plaza como el Salón de la Villa,
debido a la tranquilidad que en ella se respira, así como a las
numerosas terrazas de cafetería, un conjunto que invita tanto a
jóvenes como niños y mayores a su disfrute, especialmente en los
días soleados.
The
week ends, this Porticada Seat becomes the "Montmartre" of
the city, welcoming not only in different numismatic collectors that
they sell or they buy his merchandise, but also to painters and other
artists who meet to show their works and to make, on foot of street
and before the numerous public that Sunday to Sunday occur here
mentions, those works that shape the beauty of the surroundings that
inspire to them.
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Unamuno
Seat
If
we had par excellence to name some of the sites of encounter of the
bilbainos, one of them would be, without a doubt, the Unamuno Seat,
that by its location in the center of the Old Helmet, as well as to
count more on one of the journeyed shutdowns of meter, has become a
space of boisterous movement.
Long
ago one was a place with important buildings that were demolished by
different interests, whereas between years 1625 and 1835 de la Cruz
was occupied by the Convent, notable building of baroque style that
left
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space
to this seat, in the middle of which one rises to a bust of insigne
writer and Universal Bilbaino Miguel de Unamuno, presiding over this
way with its cautious letter the Archaeological, Ethnographic and
Historical Museum that is also located in this seat.
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Santiago Seat
Lodging
the Cathedral with the same name, one is this square of Santiago,
place that some dantzaris of Villa do his by hours, taking until them
its traditional dantzas that put in common the week ends in vespertine
schedule, brightening up this way part of the Seven Streets of Bilbao.
The
one that outside neuralgic point of Villa and center of the numeration
of all the houses of Bilbao until 1885, welcomes in its center the
source of Paret, which solely was not devised like decorative element,
but also directed to the service of the people.
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Arenal
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Other
many cities grew around a river, but in the case of Villa, Ri'a of
Bilbao was the axis of the creation of ours "botxo". Thus,
those same waters that gave food to our ancestors were depositing
sands in playazo ample, from where the name of the Sandy ground came.
Between the expansion of the old Old Helmet and
parallelly to the transformation in harbor zone, the Sandy ground became the stroll
between Bidebarrieta and the church of San Nicholas at the beginning of
century XIX. The present Bridge of the Sandy ground constituted, thus, the jump by Ri'a towards the first
Extension of century XX.
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Vital part of Villa, the Sandy ground counts on own identity, crowding
together to newspaper an important number of viandantes that are increased in acts indicated like the different fairs that concentrate
annually or celebrations there several, like the Market from Santo Tomás or the traditional market of
flowers that are carried out every Sunday, as well as romerías of dantzas that is celebrated the weekends around the remarkable one.
Kiosco de Mu'sica (devised and constructed in 1923 with the purpose of
lodging performances of bands, in special the policeman).
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Source of the Dog
Attributed to the construction of this neoclassic monument to Juan
Baptist of Orueta and Miguel de Maruri, one is a source that replaced another preexisting one with the name of "Spurts of San Miguel".
He would be in the 1800 when, with the main purpose to be a drinking
trough for the load animals that went to the market, this construction
was modified, receiving name of "Source of the Dog". This definition had to that the new constructed sewers were assimilated to the image
of a dog, popular perception to which it had the name change and, by extension, the one of the street.
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