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The Iron Belt. Bilbao defensive line
Yesterday Bilbao’s defensive belt, better known as the Iron Belt, was a line of fortifications over 80 km long that the Basque Government decided to build in 1936 to protect Bilbao and its surroundings and to defend democracy and freedom, against the advance of the rebel troops. That great work,…
Gernika
The Villa de Gernika is an emblematic place for Bizkaia and for the entire Basque Country. The suffering of the people in the bombing carried out by the fascist forces in the Civil War was immortalized by Pablo Picasso in one of his best-known paintings, Guernica. The main symbol is…