Espaņol Euskera
Sestaoko UdalaEscudoAyuntamiento de Sestao

At the industrial heart of the Left Bank of the Nervion

 
Situation graphic 

Our town is located at the eastern end of the Triano hills. It borders on the municipalities of Trapagaran, Portugalete and Baracaldo. It is a very hilly area, and the town is well known for its steep streets. The hillsides on which the town is build slope down to the Nervion, Galindo and Ballonti rivers, where big industrial sites stand on areas which were once marshes and plains.

 Two thirds of the town's 3,207,471m² area consist of industrial land, and the remaining third is shared between residential land and the rivers. This means that the built-up area of Sestao is densely concentrated. Sestao was formerly one of the Three Towns belonging to the Somorrostro Valley. It became an independent area in 1805 and gained full administrative independence in 1848.

  

Aerial photograph of Sestao 

In its earliest days it was an agricultural and fishing village, but it was transformed into an industrial town around one hundred years ago, and it is as an industrial town that Sestao has had to face up to the rapid changes and industrial restructuring processes of the last twenty years.

 From 340 inhabitants in 1800 the population grew to 7,946 by 1895 and in 1979 reached 43,122. The present population is 34,027, and the numbers continue to decrease.

 

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Municipal Budget 1997

Annual budget: 3,078,927,557 pesetas Back to menu 

Main companies based in Sestao

The town is home to one thousand three hundred large, medium and small companies in the processing, auxiliary and service sectors, the most important of which are: Back to menu 

Municipal services

Apart from the usual municipal administrative and technical services the following are worthy of mention:  Back to menu 

Main programmes and activities

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Main Organizations & Associations in the town's social and cultural life

The town has one hundred and twenty political, trades union, cultural, sports and health-care associations, including: All these groups have a long historical tradition, and some of them are close to their centenaries. Together with local celebrities they stage cultural, sports, social and professional events which transmit a picture of the social and civic vitality of Sestao to the rest of the Basque Country and further abroad.

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Address

Ayuntamiento de Sestao
Dpto. de Cultura
Edificio de la AISS 2ª planta
Alda. Las Llanas 4 - 48910 Sestao (Bizkaia)
Tf: (34-4)496.41.11
Fax: (34-4)496.39.28

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Municipality of Sestao is a full member of Bilbao Metropoli-30