{"id":231653,"date":"2022-05-31T18:23:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T16:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ferrovial.com\/projects-ballester\/the-bilbao-behovia-highway-by-jose-manuel-ballester\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T22:13:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T21:13:58","slug":"the-bilbao-behovia-highway-by-jose-manuel-ballester","status":"publish","type":"project_ballester","link":"https:\/\/www.ferrovial.com\/en-au\/projects-ballester\/the-bilbao-behovia-highway-by-jose-manuel-ballester\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bilbao &#8211; Behovia Highway, Vasque Country (Spain)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n    <m-hero-ballester class='gutenberg'>\n\n        \n                    <h2 slot=\"title\">The Start of the Great Cantabrian Connection<\/h2>\n        \n                    <p slot=\"location\">\n                Bilbao, \n                                    <span>Spain<\/span>\n                            <\/p>\n        \n                    <span slot=\"caption\">\n                The Bilbao &#8211; Behovia Highway, Vasque Country (Spain)            <\/span>\n        \n        \n                            \n    <\/m-hero-ballester>\n\n    \n\n\n<m-wysiwig negative id=\"wysiwyg\" class=\"wp-block-components-wysiwyg\"><div slot=\"maincontent\">    <p class=\"intro\">The first images of this highway&#8217;s history were still in black and white. 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