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A gray industrial port that bet everything on a titanium museum — and won. The Guggenheim effect turned Bilbao into the textbook case for culture-led revival. Its rougher stories predate the miracle: El pico 2 shoots up in the heroin years. Open Bilbao on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.

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6 famous stories set in Bilbao

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Browse 3 books and 3 movies set in Bilbao.

Origin

Origin

by Dan Brown (Goodreads Author)
book

Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend a major announcement—the unveiling of a discovery that “will change the face of…

Setting: ['Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain)', 'Bilbao (Spain)', 'Madrid (Spain)', 'Budapest (Hungary)']Time Period: 1985
El pico 2

El pico 2

Ópalo Films
movie

Paco son of the commander of the Guardia Civil Evaristo Torrecuadrada has been involved in Bilbao in the murder of a drug dealer couple. His fathers' efforts in suppressing evidence have nothing to do when the crime…

Setting: Bilbao, SpainTime Period: 1980s
Friend Zone

Friend Zone

Telespan 2000-Sayaka Producciones Audiovisuales-Canal+ España-Atresmedia-EiTB
movie

Bilbao Spain. After breaking up with Elisa his girlfriend for several years Txema meets Claudia a gorgeous Argentinian girl in a very awkward situation. They become friends so soon and so easily that Txema misinterprets…

Setting: Bilbao, SpainTime Period: 2000s
A House Without Boundaries

A House Without Boundaries

Amboto
movie

Daniel is a member of The Organization. He is sent on an assignment to Bilbao to determine what has become of a lad his age a former member. He takes over the boy's room in an odd rooming house. When he is given the…

Setting: Bilbao, Spain; Fishing Village, SpainTime Period: Contemporary
Nobody's Girl

Nobody's Girl

by Sarra Manning
book

Bea thinks she's the most boring seventeen-year-old in the world. She's not pretty or popular or funny, unlike her mother who had Bea when she was 17. The only glamorous thing about Bea is the French father who left…

Setting: Paris, France; Bilbao, SpainTime Period: 1959
Diabulus in musica

Diabulus in musica

by Espido Freire
book

Ésta es una historia de amor entre una mujer, un hombre y un fantasma. O, tal vez, dos fantasmas. Una historia que nos habla de Cristopher Random, un actor que fue muchas personas, y de Balder Goienuri, que hasta su…

Setting: Bilbao, Spain; London, UKTime Period: 2002

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