Guggenheim Bilbao travel tips and stories. Vacations ideas, cruises spa and resorts

Just a few meters away from the famous Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao is located Gran Hotel Domine. It is a luxury five-star accommodation, comprises 145 rooms. Its designers are Javier Mariscal and Fernando Salas with their respective teams. The hotel was designed, in the same spirit as its neighbor – the Guggenheim Museum – one of the most recognizable buildings in the world. Amongst the dining options count the Buena Vista Terrace that offers a spectacular view over the museum from the hotel’s rooftop terrace.
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This ribbon-like construction is an unique hotel in Spain. The hotel is designed by renowned architect Frank O. Gehry – the architect of the epoch Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. Wine hotel “Marques de Riscal” is nestled in the “City of Wine” – in the heart of the Rioja.
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The public sculptures and monuments have become a contemporary exciting areas over the last 15 years. Artist can do their best work in public scene. Koon’s ”Rabbit”, for example was part of Macy’s Thanksgiving day parade in 2007. The Koon’s art presents the main exchange of public sculptures. His buoyant forms reach deep into observers childhood with accompanying feelings of hope and optimism.
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Miro Hotel is located in the city centre of Bilbao Spain, just 200 m from the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts.
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The new terminal of Bilbao Airport, Spain is a production of Aerodynamic roof over the administrative areas, restaurants and waiting areas. So this exciting architecture is design by the architect Santiago Calatrava. The investment is 43 million Euros($39million). It covers an area of 25, 000 square meters and will be able to handle up 3 million passenger per year.
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Frank Gehry’s Weisman Art Museum is a four-story structure housing approximately 11,000 square feet of gallery space. A precursor to the architect’s more famous Disney Hall and Guggenheim Bilbao, the Weisman is made of brushed stainless steel and terra-cotta colored brick. The building, on the campus of University of Minnesota, is dramatically sited on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River.
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Museums are important cultural institutions, symbols of power, stature, and sophistication. Designed by the North American architect Frank Gehry, this unique Museum built on a 32,500 square meter site in the center of Bilbao. The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a modern and contemporary art museum. The permanent collection of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao basically includes works by the most prominent artists of the last forty years of this century.

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