Jardines de Albia, Public garden in Abando district, Bilbao, Spain
Jardines de Albia is a green space in Bilbao divided into two distinct sections by a street, featuring tall plane trees and water features throughout. One section includes a plaza with a fountain where a female figure holds an amphora.
The gardens occupy the Abando district, where the Ensanche expansion of Bilbao was laid out from the late 19th century. The site is split by Ibáñez de Bilbao street, named after a local figure, and is framed by the church of San Vicente Mártir and the Casa de Socorro del Ensanche. On the same street stands Sabin Etxea, the birthplace of Sabino Arana Goiri and headquarters of the PNV.
The gardens carry statues of Sabino Arana Goiri, founder of the Basque Nationalist Party, near the Palacio de Justicia, and of the writer Antonio Trueba beside the Alameda de Mazarredo. In the smaller Plaza de San Vicente stands an Immaculate Virgin by Agustín de la Herrán. The nearby Café Iruña, opened by the Navarrese Severo Unzúe on San Fermín day 1903, was a meeting point for Pío Baroja, Miguel de Unamuno and Indalecio Prieto.
The gardens lie between Calle Ibáñez de Bilbao, Calle Berastegui, Calle San Vicente, Calle Colón de Larreátegui and the Alameda de Mazarredo. The two parts are split by Calle Ibáñez de Bilbao, so cross at the marked crossings; the San Vicente half is the smaller one, around the church of San Vicente Mártir. The Café Iruña stands on the corner of Colón de Larreátegui and Berástegui.
The pond in the larger section is crowned by a female figure with raised arms holding an amphora that pours a jet of water. The gardens are split by Calle Ibáñez de Bilbao: 4,500 square metres of gardens on one side, the 1,500-square-metre Plaza de San Vicente on the other.
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