Vizcaya anticipates spring among forests, books and embers. For 12 years, day after day, Agustín Ibarrola turned each of the pine trees in a forest near Kortezubi into an enormous painting of life.

Enjoying the Oma Forest - free through a reservation on the bizkaia.eus website or with a paid guided tour - is combining the enjoyment of nature with feeling part of a work of art. The Forest after the intense rains at the end of February smells of freedom and shines with an intense green. The monsters of Basque gastronomy are giving way to a new, more heterodox and unclassifiable generation.