Tuesday, December 30, 2025

the last book I ever read (The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation by Mark Kurlansky, excerpt fifteen)

from The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation by Mark Kurlansky:

The Guggenheim is just the most noticeable part of the plan to change Bilbao. As befitting a Bilbao museum, it has an industrial setting on the Nervión. But the container-loading rail yard next door is slated to be moved elsewhere. The city’s problems and the solutions that are being found are very much like those of other nineteenth-century industrial cities, such as Cleveland and Pittsburgh. Except that Clevelanders are not trying to build a country.



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