Bilbao, the Basque country

Activities

 

2. Change in the city: what happened when?

The people running Bilbao have changed it from a dying city to a flourishing and attractive one. What happened and when?

Put these pictures in the right order to tell the story.

There are captions for each one, but they are jumbled and need to be matched with the right picture.

 

 

Captions

1

 

Expanding the port at a new site downstream.

2

 

Redesigning the riverside comes next.

3

 

Heavy industries and city houses pollute the River Nervion.

 

4

 

City Council and others realize ‘something must be done’.

5

 

Unemployment, crime and poverty grow.

 

6

 

Cleaning up the river takes priority.

7

 

Linking the Metro with tram and bus routes.

 

8

 

Getting people and their cars off the road and onto the Metro reduced congestion.

9

 

Building an eye-catching focus in the city centre helped.

10

 

Building a new airport to cope with tourist and business trade.

 

11

 

Steel making and shipbuilding do well, but then decline.




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