Hendaia (NE), Vitoria (SE), Bilbao (W) and Pamplona (S) to be completeted by 2022. Contractors were appointed, works are in place although past schedule, while strong opposition (ecologists, Basque leftist nationalists,...) and serious financial tensions made its future uncertain. The only airport in Gipuzkoa serving just domestic flights is the San Sebastian Airport located in Hondarribia, while the air transportation needs are usually served by the nearby Bilbao and Biarritz airports. Cultural traits Gipuzkera, a dialect of the Basque language spoken in most of the region, shows a considerable vitality and holds a prominent position among other dialects. The Basque cultural element is apparent, including traditional dances and singing, bertsolaritza, trikiti and txistu music, baserris dotting the rural landscape, town festivals, and its signature heavy sculptures (stone, steel, iron) from the industrial tradition, all blending with the latest Basque, Spanish and international pop culture events and design trends centred in major urban areas (Donostia, Tolosa, etc.). Traditionally a Catholic province, its patron saints are the Society of Jesus' Ignatius of Loyola, a native of this province born in the neighborhood of Loyola (Azpeitia), and Our Lady of Arantzazu. The region has produced many famous Basque athletes for example: Jose Maria Olazabal (golfer), José Ángel Iribar, Mikel Arteta and Xabi Alonso (footballers), Abraham Olano and Domingo Perurena (cyclists), Edurne Pasaban and Alberto Iñurrategi (mountaineers), Iñaki Urdangarin (handball player), Maite Zúñiga (runner) and Paulino Uzcudun (boxer). Professional tennis player Garbiñe Muguruza's father is also a native of Gipuzkoa. Notable natives and residents Abraham Olano, road racing cyclist, 1995 world road champion, 1998 world time trial champion Ainhoa Arteta, soprano Alberto Iñurrategi, mountaineer Andrés de Urdaneta, explorer and navigator Asier Illarramendi, footballer Bernardo Atxaga, writer Blas de Lezo, Admiral famed for the Battle of Cartagena de Indias Cosme Damián de Churruca y Elorza, Admiral of the Royal Spanish Armada Cristóbal Balenciaga, fashion designer Cristóbal de Oñate, explorer, conquistador and colonial official in New Spain Domingo Martínez de Irala, conquistador Eduardo Chillida, sculptor Edurne Pasaban, mountaineer Fernando de Villanueva (died 1679), governor of Spanish New Mexico between 1665 and 1668. Fernando Savater, philosopher Francisco de Ibarra, explorer, conquistador and the founder of the city of Durango Gabriel de Mendizábal Iraeta, General Officer who fought in the Peninsular War Ignacio Zuloaga, painter Iker Martínez de Lizarduy Lizarribar, Olympic sailor Jorge Oteiza, sculptor José de Urrutia, Explorer and settler of Texas in the 1600s José María