Ibaiondo
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Bilbao
Bilbao ) is a Spanish municipality, capital of the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country. With a population of 353,187 , it is the largest city of its autonomous community and the tenth largest in Spain...
(Basque Country
Basque Country (autonomous community)
The Basque Country is an autonomous community of northern Spain. It includes the Basque provinces of Álava, Biscay and Gipuzkoa, also called Historical Territories....
, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
). Ibaiondo is a recently used name and in Basque language
Basque language
Basque is the ancestral language of the Basque people, who inhabit the Basque Country, a region spanning an area in northeastern Spain and southwestern France. It is spoken by 25.7% of Basques in all territories...
means Beside the river. It is divided into the neighbourhoods of Atxuri
Atxuri
Atxuri is a neighborhood of Bilbao. It was originally a suburb south of the old walled town. Modernly it stands between this neighborhood and those of Solokoetxe, Santutxu and the estuary of Bilbao. Administratively, it belongs to the 5th district of the city. It hosts Bilbao-Atxuri Station, the...
, Bilbo Zarra
Bilbo Zarra
Bilbao La Vieja is the oldest neighbourhood of Bilbao, being older than even the medieval urban district , founded in 1300. It lies right across the estuary, on the left bank of the Nervion River, united to the old town by the bridge of San Anton pictured below...
, Casco Viejo
Casco Viejo
' or ' in Spanish or ' or ' in Basque are different names for the medieval neighbourhood of Bilbao, part of the Ibaiondo district...
, Iturralde, Abusu, San Adrián, San Francisco, Solokoetxe, Miribilla and Zabala.
Santiago Cathedral
Santiago Cathedral is a Catholic Cathedral in the city of Bilbao that was officially declared cathedral in 1950. Its origins probably date to well before the foundation of the city in 1300, when Bilbao was little more than a small enclave of fishermen....
and Saint Anton Church, both from the 15th century.
Today the modern district includes both the oldest and the newest neighbourhood, Miribilla, which was started in 1999 and completed two years after.
It is the most extensive district of Bilbao, with an area of 9.65 km² (25% of the municipality) but the urban area
Urban area
An urban area is characterized by higher population density and vast human features in comparison to areas surrounding it. Urban areas may be cities, towns or conurbations, but the term is not commonly extended to rural settlements such as villages and hamlets.Urban areas are created and further...
has an area of only 2.45 km², the rest of the district is part of mount Pagasarri
Pagasarri
Pagasarri is one of the two small mountain ranges that encloses the city of Bilbao, Basque Country and is part of the Basque Mountains. Its main peak separates the municipality of Bilbao from Arrigorriaga and Alonsotegi, and has an elevation of 673 m...
. It is also the city's most populated district, with 57,340 inhabitants in 2006.