Gipuzkoa,
the industrial heart of the Basque Country, is located in the
north of Spain. This province, the capital of which is San Sebastian,
holds a strategical and privileged geographical location with
respect to the rest of Europe: bordering on France, hinge of
the European Atlantic Axis, it is a way of access to the Mediterranean
Axis, and place of passage towards Portugal and North Africa.
Facing the sea, Gipuzkoa has always been open to the outside
and to commercial relations with other countries. Its men and
women, its companies and its products have travelled round the
world.
Such vocation as an international logistic platform is nowadays
kept alive by excellent land, sea and air communications: a
dense network of roads and motorways, a railway connection with
Europe, several fishing ports, a large commercial port in Pasajes
and an airport in Hondarribia. There are other four important
airports only one hour away by car (Bilbao, Vitoria, Pamplona
and Biarritz).
Gipuzkoa's 700,000 people are closely linked to one another
and to the rest of the world by the most modern of technologies:
telecommunications. Optical fibre cabling reaches the main corners
of the province, thereby guaranteeing immediate connection with
anywhere on the planet. |
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Because
of its tradition as a territory open to the outside, Gipuzkoa
has a very important communications network. This includes
the Commercial Port in Pasajes, the nearby High Speed
Railway connection, the dense network of roads and motorways
and the nearby airports. |
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