cathedral
Santa Maria Cathedral Vitoria
A Gothic cathedral whose 'open for restoration' tour inspired Ken Follett, letting you climb scaffolding through 800 years of construction.
0 km · about 5 min drive
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Gasteiz / Vitoria
Basque Country, Spain · Europe
About Gasteiz / Vitoria
Gasteiz / Vitoria is worth a stop: 20 minutes from Murgia, 60km from Flysch Cliffs of Zumaia.
Gasteiz / Vitoria is in Basque Country, Spain, with about 260,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Murgia, about 17 km away.
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What is there to see near Gasteiz / Vitoria?
Within an hour or so of Gasteiz / Vitoria: Santa Maria Cathedral Vitoria (0 km), Salto del Nervión (27 km), Asador Etxebarri (30 km), Laguardia (34 km).
Are there any good drives near Gasteiz / Vitoria?
The nearest famous roads are Corniche Basque and Puerto de Ibañeta.
Where is Gasteiz / Vitoria?
Gasteiz / Vitoria is in Basque Country, Spain, about 17 km from Murgia.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 257,407
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Spain
- Region
- Basque Country
- Timezone
- Europe/Madrid
- Coordinates
- 42.8500, -2.6727
Emergency & Services
Essential numbers in Spain
Guardia Civil (traffic police): 062. Two warning triangles required in vehicles.
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Worth the detour from Gasteiz / Vitoria
7 notable places within an hour's drive.
waterfall
Salto del Nervión
Spain's tallest waterfall at 222 meters, dramatically plunging into the Delika Canyon on the Basque Country border.
27 km · about 30 min drive
restaurant
Asador Etxebarri
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.
30 km · about 35 min drive
landmark
Laguardia
A walled medieval wine town riding a ridge over the Rioja Alavesa vineyards, honeycombed with underground bodegas beneath car-free lanes.
34 km · about 40 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.
51 km · about 60 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.
60 km · about 70 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.
60 km · about 70 min drive
Driving roads near Gasteiz / Vitoria
- 60 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.
- 73 kmPuente la ReinaAn elegant Romanesque pilgrim bridge arching over the Arga, where the two main Camino routes merge into one path to Santiago.
- 75 kmMonte IgueldoA vintage funicular hauls you to a hilltop viewpoint and amusement park with the postcard panorama over San Sebastian's Concha bay.
Driving in Spain
- Drives on
- the right
- Petrol
- ~€1.55/litre
- Motorway tolls
- ~€4.00/100km
When to drive here
April to October
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