In 1415, during the War of the Bands, the corregidor, the royally-appointed governor of the Biscayan hermandad, acting on royal orders, siphoned off Biscayan wheat to the Asturias, inciting a rebellion. The Biscayans were defeated at Erandio with the loss of sixty men and the wheat transfers continued.
Festivals
Several annual festivals are celebrated in Erandio.
Patron saints' festivities
Saint Lawrence's feasts in Astrabudua use to involve idi probak (traditional dragging competitions with oxens).
The main festivals are Patronal festivals (fiestas patronalesin Spanish) (patronage festivals, held in the days around the date dedicated to the patron saints under whose advocation churches and hermits are).
The local public holiday of the municipality rotates yearly on August 10, August 28 and the corpus Christi day.[2]
August 15, Andra Maria (Our Lady Mary) in Erandio Goikoa (August 15, the day of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary is a public holiday in Spain).
August 17 and 18: Saint Mammes in Santimami (Saint Mammes' hermit lies on the municipal border and most of the festival acts are held on Leioa's ground).
Erandio has also celebrated a street music festival called Musikale, with music bands marching and playing in the neighbourhoods of Altzaga and Astrabudua. Musikale had been originally conceived in the neighbouring municipality of Leioa. For some years it was held simultaneously in Leioa, Erandio, Basauri and Sestao, but the other municipalities dropped it, and in 2013 only Erandio organised it.[3]
Other public festivals celebrated in September are the recreation of a traditional rural Basque wedding in Astrabudua, and Erandio Magikoa and open air Festival of Magic held in different neighbourhoods.
Transport
While Asua and Erandio Goikoa are just 3 Km away from Bilbao Airport, other parts of the municipality, like Astrabudua are more than 6 Km away. There is no direct public transport from Erandio to the passengers terminal, though buses can be taken in the neighbouring municipalities of Loiu and Bilbao.
Land transport
Euskotren and Metro Bilbao stations in the neighbourhood of Lutxana.
There are several bridges over the minor rivers, such as Asua, but there is currently only one bridge over the Estuary of Bilbao, formed by the Ibaizabal - Nervión river, the Rontegi bridge only for motorised vehicles.
There is a project for a pedestrian bridge, which will be called All Iron Zubia between Erandio and Barakaldo.
Erandio was also connected to Barakaldo by fluvial passenger transport over the Estuary, first by rowing boats, and since the 20th century [5] in motorised boats, which were popularly known as gasolino. Regular fluvial transport service was interrupted in February 2024, due to economical difficulties caused by the rise of fuel prices and the competence of land public transport,[6][7] though private boats are occasionally hired for leisure travel along the estuary.
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