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Day 7: April 18, 2018
we drove from Cantabria to get a famous important city already in the Basque country which is the city of Bilbao, or Bilbo how they say in euskera because according to our Tour director here they also speak another language, Euskera and it is a very special comunity with speacial rights..., that was the city we went to visit today, it is an industrial place and where the famous modernism museum is, Guggenheim, amazing, the building itself looks a masterpiece, designed by Frank Gerah, so we toured around the museum, we saw, some modernism, minimalist, cubism, art..everything futuristic,we had the chance to see the famous Puppy and the spider belonging to this crazy museum, then we walked for a while to get the old town( casco viejo)
But before we did that, we stopped in Guernica, the famous town due to the painting design by Picasso, to showed the atrocities of the german bombing during the spanish civil wat, the german airforce try their aircarft and bombs using this town as a training place, unbeliable, due to it, about 300 civils died.
It was an amazing fun and sunny day...
Hasta mañana.