Was founded in the year 1300 by Don Diego Lopez de Haro and over the next seven hundred years has become a thriving and dynamic city due to its important comercial, banking and industrial tradition, which have made of Bilbao one of the  major ports in Europe.  A city that now , in the XXI century, has reinvented itself by the hand of Gehry, Isozaki, Zaha Hadid and other renown architects in a unique blend of local flavour and innovation