Vitoria is the Basque capital, a modern city filled with green zones where the Bellas Artes Museum is located, which exhibits a collection of cards that is considered to be one of the most important ones in the world.

In the last years, Bilbao has gained a lot of fame within the cultural circuits due to its spectacular Guggenheim Bilbao museum. In addition, the city has other interesting museums like the Bellas Artes, the Museum of Artistic Reproductions, the Bullfighting Museum and the Sacred Art Museum, as well.

San Sebastian is the Basque city for tourism. Noble and elegant, it is located next to Concha Bay and throughout the year it offers cultural events of the first order, like the International Festival of Cinema, and a jazz festival.

Travelling through the region entails crossing diverse mountain ports with impressive landscapes. Practicing trekking, horse riding, or other diverse mountain sports, are some of the attractive aspects of this area. The Basque Country also has a very peculiar folklore, which manifests itself in its popular celebrations, as well as in its totally native sports, like Pelota Vasca. These native sports are an ethnographic testimony of the first order of the singularity of the Basque culture. Most of these sports are related to rural or marine life (aizcolaris woodcutting, stone lifting...).

The traineras are another Basque singularity. These are boats with fixed benches, and the most popular ones are those with a crew of thirteen rowers and a patron. The cities and towns of the coast celebrate these boat races in the summer months. The Concha Bay Traineras boat race is the event of the year and attracts an enormous amount of spectators.

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