Hotels near Museo de Bellas Artes

The Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao holds roughly 10,000 works spanning the 12th century to the present, and plenty of residents rank it above the Guggenheim for depth. Its strongest rooms cover Spanish painting, with El Greco, Goya and Zurbaran, alongside a Basque section built around Ignacio Zuloaga and Aurelio Arteta that you will not find represented anywhere else at this scale.

It stands at the edge of Dona Casilda Park, five minutes on foot from the Guggenheim, which makes pairing the two easy. General admission is about 10 EUR and the last two opening hours of the day are free. A large extension designed by Norman Foster with Luis Maria Uriarte has been reshaping the complex, so confirm which galleries are open before you set out.

Pro Tip: Go after 18:00 on a weekday for free entry and near-empty rooms, then walk two minutes into Dona Casilda Park, where the duck pond and bandstand make a decent place to sit before dinner.