INDUSTRIAL ROUTE

Old Station

Railway transport has been fundamental for the development of Zumarraga: to be able to move Orbegozo from Zarautz here, to bring goods…

Little by little, since the Northern Railway was inaugurated in 1864, then the Basque Railway that linked Zumarraga with Durango, even reaching as far as Bilbao, until 1926, when the railroad of the Urola region arrived or, as we call it here, “Gure trena”, the train has been fundamental for us in Zumarraga. The train ran on the Zumaya-Zumarraga line.

As I have said, the railroad had an immense importance in the development of the town, it brought with it thousands of workers from all over the Basque Country and the Spanish state. It also brought Italian workers with the accordion and from there the trikitixa was created in Zumarraga.