Basque Country
Spanish engineer and inventor Leonardo Torres Quevedo erected the world's first cable car suitable for passenger transport in 1907.
Industrial and military heritage in Basque Country
Iron ore exploitation in the Spanish Basque Country gained momentum in the mid-nineteenth century, leading to the construction of ports, steel mills and other industrial relics. In turn, forts and bunkers defended the coastline against foreign incursions.
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Basque Country
In 1959, an eighty-metre-high blast furnace rose from the ground in Sestao, a municipality about five kilometres from the Spanish port city of Bilbao.
Basque Country
The Spanish Empire once spread over much of the world, but the Spanish-American War of 1898 dealt the global empire a death blow.
Basque Country
Since Roman times, the Aiako Harria massif in the Basque country has been tapped to extract minerals, including iron ores. Iron ore mining gained momentum in the mid-19th century.
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