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Bilbao is a city in northern Spain that seems to be busy. During the week the activity begins early and the streets quickly populate both locals who go to work and tourists who want to squeeze every last second. However, the movement that occurs throughout the week in down town historic seem to translate into Sunday and the streets are filled with life to give rise to spike and pot.

Ancient tradition if any, the spike and pot is meeting every week. All the people gather in the historic centre of Bilbao from 10 in the morning to move from bar to bar in search of delicious snacks and refreshing pots. In each place you stop ask for a snack and a beer. For the 2 PM are ready for a nap.

The most pleasant of the spike and pot, plus the delicious taste, is that it is a ritual that does not distinguish age or social position. Everyone approaches the historic premises in pursuit of their favourites. Entire families, an elderly couple, a group of young people with their dogs, which came on Saturday and were not able to go to sleep. The rockers, conservatives and tourists all come together to celebrate the day off.

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No doubt that the Camino de Santiago is one of the biggest cultural tours in both Europe and the world. For hundreds of years pilgrims go along the road making it the oldest, celebrated and popular. An option to enjoy the best of his landscapes at the same time to learn is to do the Camino de Santiago by bike.

To travel the path of the apostle is not necessary to have religious beliefs. Its appeal transcends the Christian faith and so deeply in stunning natural landscapes and valuable historic architecture and in its cultural dimension.

El Camino de Santiago across northern Spain. Begins in the Pyrenees, where the beauty of the landscape is indescribable, and offers wonderful views in the regions of Navarra, Castilla y Leon and Galicia. Some amazing monuments surprised eyes of travellers, such as old hospitals for pilgrims in Leon and Santiago de Compostela.

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