What is "erandio"

Erandio is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain.

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.

Erandio is a station of the Line 1 of Metro Bilbao. It is located in the neighborhood of Altzaga, in the municipality of Erandio, in the Greater Bilbao area. It is one of the three stations located on this municipality, along with Lutxana and Astrabudua. Its fare zone is B0.

Before the creation of Metro Bilbao, Erandio originally had a station on the surface, which belonged to the Bilbao - Plentzia railway of Ferrocarriles Vascos (later Euskotren). It was turned into an underground station designed by Navarrese architect Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza.