Discover Sestao’s industrial past

Discover the Workers’ Route organised by the Sestao Tourist Office to learn about the industrial history of this factory town. It is an interpretive tour through the streets of Sestao where families and children aged 8 and over can discover important remains such as the workers’ house or Blast Furnace No. 1.

Do you want to know how people lived, worked or interacted during the industrial revolution? Sestao was one of the industrial epicentres of the Left Bank of the estuary and one of the most emblematic scenes of industrialisation.

The Sestao Tourist Office organises an interesting interpretive tour through the streets of the town, especially its lower part, to learn about the industrial history of this factory town.

Three representative spaces of industrialization will be visited during the tour:

• The old First Aid Room, now converted into a Tourist Office. This centre opened in 1925 as a health centre for working-class families.
• The La Unión 38 workers’ house. This house was designed by Santos Zunzunegui as a model of an English-style single-family home. This house-museum is part of a group of houses that the steel company provided to some of its workers and which has some interpretation pieces that reflect how they lived and how some of these workers’ houses were distributed.
• The High Oven No. 1, the most important industrial vestige still standing from the emblematic Altos Hornos de Vizcaya iron and steel factory. Built in 1959 by the German company GHH for AHV, it is an 80m-long shaft oven that is today the emblem of Sestao.

In addition, during the visit you will visit different points of the municipality that were and are key in its industrial past (buildings, streets…) and that make up the history of Sestao.

Practical information:

• Opening hours:
  • Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. (Spanish).
  • Weekdays for groups of more than 8 people and schools (in Basque, English and Spanish).
• Price: visits are free.
• Duration: between one and a half and two hours, depending on the group.
• Public: visits are aimed at a wide audience, including families and children.
• Recommendations: comfortable clothing and shoes for the visit.
• Registration:
  • Sestao Tourist Office: Calle Rivas, 70, 48910 Sestao.
  • T. 944 07 09 85
  • E-mail: visit@sestao.eus