Bilbao - Gran Vía

The new town of Bilbao, the Ensanche, occupies the left bank of the Río Nervión. Its main artery is the 1.5km/1mi long Gran Vía de Don Diego López de Haro (whose statue stands in the Plaza de España at the near end of the street, just over the river). Farther along the street to the west is the Palacio de la Diputación Provincial (by Luis Aladrén, 1897), seat of the provincial government. Beyond this the Gran Vía cuts across the spacious Plaza Federico Moyúa to end at the tall memorial in honor of the Sagrado Corazón de Jesús (1927).