We woke up woke up sore and aching and decided to take a bus for part of the way to our next destination Castro Urdiales. I had read the first several hours went thru the industrial outskirts of Bilbao and were not very scenic. We were looking forward to getting back into the countryside. Castro Urdiales is a city but much smaller than Bilbao. It had a nice old town. The big industries are fishing and anchovy packing as well as tourism. We are no longer in the Basque Country but now in Cantabria.
Castro Urdiales was first settled by the Romans and still has a medieval Roman bridge. The city stands over the Roman colony of Flaviobriga under the emperor Vaspacian. They are doing some at archaeological work in town with building remnants from the Roman city. Near the Roman bridge is the 13th century gothic church The Church of St Mary of the Assumption and a castle lighthouse from the 13th century.
We checked into our pension and set out to explore. We walked up to the church and out on the breakwater. The town is on the Cantabria Sea and later in the afternoon we had some rain and the some of the waves waves were crashing over the breakwater.
we decided on pasta for supper and after snort walk around town decided to call it a night. Tomorrow we head to Laredo.