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OMA FOREST

Near the location of Kortezubi ( Bizkaia), in the natural reserve of Urdaibai specificaly. You can found one of the most important work of art(OMA forest or the painted forest) created by Agustin Ibarrola, who is an important Basque sculptor and painter.

The forest is based in the modern art trend call “Land art” his aim is to do art in natural places like forest or beaches, this type of art was created on 60 decade. Most of the trees are Monterrey pine type, these are painting with figures of humans, animals or geometric one, this drawing are compound by all kind of colors. Some of them only can see depending of the position you have taken, others are create by amount of trees. The contrast and the colors of this place do a beautifull and a magic landscape.

Oma forest is important in two sphere, artistic and a natural, as a result, is a famous place in The Basque Country and all the years people go to visit him. They are different path to help the tourist doing the general route of the forest, you can do it walking or riding a bicycle. The route is usually flat so they are not so many slopes, for this reason it is not a hard travel, the duration it can be between 120 or 150 minutes walking.

The access is free and easy because they are a lot of indication and near the forest is a big parking.