{"id":302941,"date":"2025-07-30T04:04:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T04:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/302941\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T04:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T04:04:17","slug":"8-best-hotels-in-bilbao-northern-spains-cultural-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/302941\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Best Hotels in Bilbao, Northern Spain&#8217;s Cultural Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spain\u2019s north coast isn\u2019t like the rest of the country and the best hotels in Bilbao aren&#8217;t like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cntraveler.com\/gallery\/best-hotels-in-spain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">best hotels<\/a> in the rest of the country, either. The region is a wild wind-sculpted landscape of dense forest and misty mountains. It resembles Scotland or Ireland at times and its coastal cities are just as curious. The capital of the fiercely proud <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cntraveler.com\/story\/and-the-winner-is-zarautz-voted-spains-best-beach-in-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Basque country<\/a>, Bilbao was once an industrial metropolis of smoking chimneys and howling factories until a devastating flood in 1983 forced the city to rethink itself. Fast forward 40 years and Bilbao is a reinvented nirvana of delightful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cntraveler.com\/sponsored\/story\/when-it-comes-to-spanish-cuisine-tapas-are-just-the-start\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tapas<\/a> (called pintxos here) and groundbreaking art, with the pi\u00e8ce de r\u00e9sistance being the radiant swirls of Frank Gehry\u2019s iconic Guggenheim Museum.<\/p>\n<p>So with such cultural allure, it\u2019s little surprise that there are some fine hotels dotting Bilbao\u2019s lively streets. Whether it\u2019s luxurious stays overlooking the Guggenheim or quirky color-splashed art hotels, the city provides a host of options for wide-eyed newcomers or eager returning visitors. Below are our picks of the best places to stay in Bilbao.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spain\u2019s north coast isn\u2019t like the rest of the country and the best hotels in Bilbao aren&#8217;t like&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,10238,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-302941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-hotels","11":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114940206420017865","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}