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Bilbao

Spain · 13 quests

History

2 quests
Santiago Cathedral, Bilbao🇪🇸 Bilbao
Santiago Cathedral
Pilgrims have stopped here on the road to Santiago
Bilbao Cemetery, Bilbao🇪🇸 Bilbao
Bilbao Cemetery
Stone angels stand among family vaults

Nature

2 quests
Doña Casilda, Bilbao🇪🇸 Bilbao
Doña Casilda
Its pond gave it a second name
Artxanda, Bilbao🇪🇸 Bilbao
Artxanda
The funicular ends above the whole city

Art

3 quests
La Salve, Bilbao🇪🇸 Bilbao
La Salve
A red gateway grips a bridge still carrying traffic
Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao🇪🇸 Bilbao
Azkuna Zentroa
Its entrance has 43 different columns
Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao🇪🇸 Bilbao
Guggenheim Bilbao
Titanium curves sit on the riverfront

Food

3 quests
Gilda, Bilbao🇪🇸 Bilbao
Gilda
Its name comes from a 1946 film
Bacalao al pil-pil, Bilbao🇪🇸 Bilbao
Bacalao al pil-pil
Its sauce thickens without flour or cream
Chuletón, Bilbao🇪🇸 Bilbao
Chuletón
This thick steak keeps its rib bone

Sport

1 quest
San Mamés, Bilbao🇪🇸 Bilbao
San Mamés
This ground replaced another with the same name

Party

2 quests
Churchill Pub, Bilbao🇪🇸 Bilbao
Churchill Pub
Pints keep the room talking long after dark
Residence, Bilbao🇪🇸 Bilbao
Residence
The old quarter gathers here after dark

Spain

Photo quests in Bilbao

What the catalogue actually holds here, and which of it is worth rearranging a day around.

Bilbao holds 13 quests across six categories, with no single one of them defining the place: Art and Food are level at three quests each. The one category with nothing in Bilbao so far is Beach.

Two of them are tier 1 — finds rather than fixtures, and the one tier whose check-in asks for PRO; the other eleven are open on any plan. Tier 3 covers nine of them, which is the label for what a visitor would expect a travel app to have anyway.

Art covers the work and the building around it, so a mural on an ordinary street counts alongside the collection with a ticket desk. A food quest names the dish rather than the restaurant: the pin sits on the room that serves it, but what you are going for is the plate. Every check-in works the same way: the geotag your camera wrote into the photo has to land within 200 m of the quest's own point.

By category

Each of these opens the whole category across every city, with the Bilbao quests among them.

Tier 1

The unexpected ones

The two quests in Bilbao the catalogue files as finds rather than fixtures — the half of a city a guidebook has no room for.

Nearby

Cities near Bilbao

Ranked by distance rather than by border, because from here the next useful stop is often the one in the next country.

Questions

About quests in Bilbao

How many photo quests are there in Bilbao?
13, across six of the seven categories the catalogue uses. The deepest groups are Art (3), Food (3) and History (2). Nothing in Beach here yet — a category appears in a city the moment a quest is published into it, so the gaps move. Among them: Santiago Cathedral, Doña Casilda and La Salve.
What is there to do in Bilbao beyond the obvious?
2 of the 13 quests in Bilbao are tier 1, which is the catalogue's own mark for a find rather than a landmark: the pipeline that writes it is told that tier 3 is "everything a visitor would expect a travel app to have", and that tiers 1 and 2 are "only the unexpected finds". Bilbao holds two at tier 1, two at tier 2 and nine at tier 3. The tier 1 quests here are Bilbao Cemetery and Guggenheim Bilbao, which fall under History and Art.
Can you do all the Bilbao quests on one trip?
Yes, given a few days. Every one of the 13 falls within 4.5 km of the middle of the Bilbao list — walking and local transport, not day trips — so this is a list to plan a visit around rather than a reason to extend one.
Which Bilbao quests can you do for free?
11 of the 13 can be checked in on the free plan, and all 13 can be read and travelled to without paying anything — the catalogue is open signed out, on every plan. PRO covers the check-in on the hardest tier, which in Bilbao means two quests: Bilbao Cemetery and Guggenheim Bilbao.
How do I prove I visited a place in Bilbao?
Take the photo at the place and upload it. Your browser reads the location the camera wrote into that file and measures it against the quest's own coordinates; inside 200 m the check-in counts. The distance is measured to the point, not to the city: being in Bilbao is not what is checked, and a photo taken across town from Santiago Cathedral fails exactly the way one taken at home does. A file with no location in it cannot be checked at all, and a photo that has been through a messaging app usually arrives that way — upload the original out of the camera roll rather than a copy someone sent back to you. The Food quests in Bilbao sit on the room where the dish is served rather than on the dish, so that address is what the 200 m is measured from.