Amorebieta works well as a base: 15 minutes from Muxika, 40km from Flysch Cliffs of Zumaia.
Amorebieta is in Basque Country, Spain, with about 18,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Muxika, about 9 km away.
Amorebieta-Etxano, also known as Zornotza (Spanish, Amorebieta-Echano), is a town and municipality located in Biscay in the Basque Country, an Autonomous Community in northern Spain.
At the time of the 2019 census, the population of the municipality was 19,339, with 16,907 inhabitants living in Amorebieta. The mayorRead more is Andoni Agirrebeitia.
The coat of arms, which features the two parishes, bears the inscription Amorebieta Etxanoko Udala Zornotza, which means Amorebieta-Echano Town Council, Zornoza.
Within an hour or so of Amorebieta: Asador Etxebarri (16 km), Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (17 km), Playa de Laga (22 km), San Juan de Gaztelugatxe (26 km).
Are there any good drives near Amorebieta?
The nearest famous roads are Corniche Basque and Puerto de Ibañeta.
Where is Amorebieta?
Amorebieta is in Basque Country, Spain, about 9 km from Muxika.
Road trip
Drive to Amorebieta
Add it as a stop and the planner works out the driving, the nights and what's worth seeing on the way.
Bittor Arginzoniz's grill house on the square of tiny Axpe, where everything from caviar to butter is cooked over bespoke wood fires: perennially ranked among the world's very best restaurants. Book months ahead; the valley drive alone rewards.
16 km · about 30 min drive
museum
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Frank Gehry's titanium-clad masterpiece that single-handedly reinvented Bilbao is an essential road-trip pilgrimage for art and architecture lovers.
17 km · about 20 min drive
beach
Playa de Laga
A golden sweep of sand below the green pyramid of Cabo Ogono in the Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve, a favourite of Basque surfers.
22 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
San Juan de Gaztelugatxe
A hermitage perched on a tiny tidal islet connected to the mainland by a dramatic stone bridge with 241 steps, made famous as Dragonstone in Game of Thrones.
26 km · about 30 min drive
bridge
Vizcaya Bridge (Puente Colgante)
The world's oldest transporter bridge, a UNESCO iron giant that ferries cars and people across the Nervion estuary in a hanging gondola.
26 km · about 30 min drive
film location
San Juan de Gaztelugatxe (Dragonstone)
The islet chapel reached by 241 stone steps and a serpentine bridge is Dragonstone's approach in season seven.
26 km · about 30 min drive
waterfall
Salto del Nervión
Spain's tallest waterfall at 222 meters, dramatically plunging into the Delika Canyon on the Basque Country border.
37 km · about 45 min drive
natural wonder
Flysch Cliffs of Zumaia
Stunning layered geological formations along the Basque coast that expose 60 million years of Earth's history in dramatic tilted rock strata.
40 km · about 45 min drive
Driving roads near Amorebieta
26 kmVizcaya Bridge (Puente Colgante)The world's oldest transporter bridge, a UNESCO iron giant that ferries cars and people across the Nervion estuary in a hanging gondola.
60 kmMonte IgueldoA vintage funicular hauls you to a hilltop viewpoint and amusement park with the postcard panorama over San Sebastian's Concha bay.