Surprising things that you did not know about Bilbao

You step on them every day in and they made them decade of 1920 to be resistant to the rain and those the pedestrians that did not slip and they fell to the floor. Yes, it is the the paving stone, the most original and the prettiest in kilometre radius. Today it is the logo of the city and it forms part of the touristic promotions of the city and you can also see it in the form of chocolate in the cake shops.

Cod and its specialist shops form part of the countryside of Bilbao. All came from an error of transcription when a businessperson from Bilbao at the start of the 19th century made an order for 120 or 130 pieces of cod. Someone thought he asked for 120130 and Bilbao literally became cultivated with cod and hundreds and hundreds of boxes were stacked up in the business of the poor man. By chance, Bilbao became situated in the middle of a local war and thanks to cod the people of Bilbao could remain in the site of Bilbao ,
the businessman became a millionaire and cod became the number one most popular dish in the city. Nowadays, there are more than 365 ways of preparing it

In Bilbao in 1908 due to the increase of taxes on wine the bars and warehouses decided to protest and denied selling wine. There was a dry law to the people of Bilbao a lot more before Al Capone and his people ravaged the streets of Chicago but with the difference
that here in Bilbao people took it well and simply decided to replace the wine for other less popular liquors.

In 1953 they opened the first fat club on calle Ledesma . The prerequisite was to weigh more than 100kg and they made people who weighed more than 120kg an honorary member.

When King Amadeo of Saboya visited Bilbao the people of Bilbao as a showing of kindness, decided to flood the Plaza Nueva so that the King felt like he was in Venice .

Champagne is known as Bilbao water because of the ease with which it was drunk in
Bilbao is a popular drink as a sign of the economic power of the city.