Bilbao, the Basque country

Aims

To:

  • provide dramatic visual images of the city of Bilbao - past and present
  • explain through archive film and eye witnesses why it became such an important centre for iron and steel and other ‘heavy’ industries in the early twentieth century
  • use interviews and contemporary footage to show how economic decline affects people and the landscape
  • capture the spirit of a city transforming itself through major rebuilding schemes, economic expansion and individual enterprise



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