Several Basques are battling for glory with their teams in the 2022 World Cup, including two brothers playing for different countries.
Coach Didier Deschamps, who has led the French squad for a decade, is one of only three men to have won the World Cup as a player and a manager. At least four Basques...
A ancient Basque word -- the oldest evidence of the written Basque language -- has been discovered on a bronze hand known as "the hand of Irulegi" from a 2,000-year-old settlement in the Irulegi archeological site near Iruñea (Pamplona). It has been identified as the Basque word "sorioneko" or "of good...
I just spent an amazing month at the Basque immersion school Maizpide, in the small town of Lazkao in Gipuzkoa, Spain. Learning Euskara (the Basque language) had been a dream of mine since I was young and I heard the language spoken by my father, who grew up in the French-Basque town of Aldude.
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Creating a modern Basque dance group in the American West is possible -- with courage and persistence. A group of friends launched a contemporary dance group that now performs at Basque American gatherings.
Ten years ago, Franci Mendive and Kiaya Memeo were young members of Ariñak, the Basque dance...