Bilbao Sports & Outdoors

In this case are people who drag the stone. They have to cover a known distance
as many times as possible. It can be played by 2, 4 or more people groups.
The lightes stone used in this games are 500 kilograms.

A pair of bulls has to drag a huge stone for haf an hour. They has to cover an specific
distance as meny times as posible in this time.
The origin of this sport is realy old. The basque farmers didn´t use horses or donkeys in their agriculture works, so they used bulls.
Is one of the most popular basque sports and big amounts of money are betten.

25, 50 or 75 little pieces of wood are placed in the floor.
The player has to introduce them in a basquet before than his oponent.
The wood pieces has to be colected in a specific order. From the
closer to the basquet to the further one.

Equipment: A basquet and 25, 50, or 75 pieces of wood per player.

It consists of cutting some tree truncs of a known size.
The player has a person to help him to change the axes, because they get hot and they don´t cut properly.

Equipment: Tennis soes, white trousers and a strapped shirt.

It consists of lifting huge stones of several forms. Some of them are squared, other ones are spheres, cilindric, etc.
There are also many diferent kind of harrijasotzaile contests:
* Record: When an sbdy is going to lift more weight than nbdy before.
* Another modality is when the player tries to lift a stone more times than his oponent.
* When the stone is an sphere the player lifts the stone and then he moves the stone around his neck.

The stones weight between 100 and 325 Kilograms.

Equipment: The players only use a quilted waistcoat and quilted trousers.

The Athletic Club is the main football team of the city and it´s in the Official Spanish Football League.
It is one of the few teams from Europe, and the only of the spanish league which hasn´t got foreing people in the team. All the players are from the Basque Country.
Is well known that the supporters of the team are one of the most polite of the league and there aren´t ultra supporters.
Is the only team who has been always in the top spanish league since it was created with FC Barcelona and Real Madrid.

AN OLD TRADITION:
When a foreing football team comes for firts time to play to Bilbao he has to bring a present for the Saint of the club, San Mames. San Mames is also the name of the pitch.

ATHLEEEETIC!!! IEUP!!

If you are in Bilbao for a while, you may well want to have a swim (or be invited to play a sport).

Around Bilbao there are a number of polideportivos (sports centres) owned by the Council. They have a common electronic booking process (online).

To swim, you just pay for an entrance to the facilities, for other things (e.g. football) you have to pay for the pitch/court as well.

If you are going more than once it is best to buy a "Bono" of 5 or 10 entrances. A single entrance is over 5 Euro, but a bono of 10 makes the cost of entry about 3 Euro an entrance.

Athletic is more than a football team. It represent the unit of all Basques. Players of Nafarroa, Gipuzkoa, Bizkaia, Araba and Iparralde are menbers of Athletic. There are no foreigners in the team.
The teams that go to San Mames don´t play against a football team; they play against a Nation.