Guggenheim Museum: Pride of Bilbao

Posted on August 7, 2008. Filed under: Barcelonas nightlife, hotel, vacation | Tags: , , , , |

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Spain has a lot of wonderful places to show and boast off. From its 3 most largest and beautiful cities like Madrid, Barcelona, and Valencia, there is one place in Spain that is known with its magnificent museum, the city of Bilbao. Actually, Bilbao is the 6th largest City of Spain. Madrid is known with its spectacular Hoteles Madrid and Barcelona for the breath-taking Sagrada Familia. Barcelona is also known for a good nightlife where a lot of visitors would have to take hotels accommodation Barcelona just to experience its nightlife. Nevertheless, Bilbao is the city recognized with its impressive museum, the Guggenheim Museum. The city is located in the Spanish region of Bizkaia in the Basque country. A lot of visitors flock in the city to glance over the artistic merit and masterpieces that are quartered at the Guggenheim Museum. There are also beautiful museums in Barcelona but the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao is rarely remarkable among other museums in Spain. It is built to house some of the 20th century art works of different artist. A great and known architect, Frank O. Gehry, was the one who designed the museum. It covers for about 32,500 square meters. The exterior design of the building is a combination of interlocked shapes with blocks of limestone and titanium panels shaped like fish scales. As visitors would see it, the totality of the museum is not just a building but as a huge artistic structure as well. Well, the museum doesn’t just constitute the arts of earlier Spanish times because the building structure itself figures an example of a modern art construction that utters a practical building design. The museum holds about 250 art works with 19 galleries. As you get inside the museum, you can observe how organized the museum is. From its roof, glass elevators and winding spiral stairs, you could really have a spectacular vision on the place. Definitely, Guggenheim Museum is not just a fabulous museum but is also a great art itself which is a must see for visitors. So, if you got the interest of visiting the place, you should have book now a hotel in Bilbao. You would surely have fun on the place.


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