#pays basque

[beautiful-basque-country]

Sometimes I come across Tumblr blogs devoted to Spain but that won't talk about inside politics or history, just about the Mediterranean, the history of the state as a whole, and Spanish culture and food understood as Andalusian / Mediterranean.

I guess the bloggers - generally USAmericans -, even if they offer it as super informative and politically unbiased, want to write about the idea of Spain they have, not about Spain.

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so the biarritz rugby team is now sponsored by grindr and these are the new home/away kits. which i feel like people should see

(i have a Rugby Gay friend i of course sent this to immediately and he just sent me back a string of 😭 emojis because his first thought was to go to the club's website and. THESE ARE ALREADY ALL SOLD OUT)

[sir20]

Human vs Nature, Biarritz by sir20

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Tomás Acillona ~ Jardín de Dilizena, 1929 | src gomasbicromatadas

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"Certaines personnes voyagent pour surfer 🏄‍♂️ , mais souvent j'ai l'impression de surfer pour pouvoir voyager."

Chris Malloy

Gif de Flying Bee Animations

[retrogeographie]

Anglet, les jardins d'Arcadie.

[joselito28-1]

Villa Belza à Biarritz.

[a-la-recherche]

Donostia

Canon AE1, Kodak Portra 160

gencrenaz.com

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Université (Oñati, Espagne)

[culturefrancaise]

Il y a des basques par ici ? A l'aide !

Mon oncle et ma tante cherchent un logement en RDC (cause handicap catégorie 2) en URGENCE car leur propriétaire souhaite récupérer son bien immobilier le 31/12. Oui oui. Ils n'ont plus qu'une semaine pour trouver.

Zone : St Jean de Luz et alentours.

[beautiful-basque-country]

Hi!

Do you know if there's any Jewish history in EH? There are a lot of old (pre-Inquisition) Jewish buildings/art in Spain, Catalonia, and Portugal, but I'm not sure if there are EH. I'm just curious, since I've learned a lot about Jewish life in Spain before the Inquisition, but never about Jewish life in EH, if there even was any.

Thank you!

Kaixo and thanks for your message!

Of course there's Jewish history in EH! In Gipuzkoa there never was a big community, as well as in Araba, with the exception of Guardia. In Bizkaia, Balmaseda was the biggest center for Jews, but sadly they were forcibly expelled around 40 years prior to the expulsion from Castile. Jewish people flourished mainly in the southern side of Nafarroa in Muslim times: there were thriving Jewish communities in Lizarra, Tutera, Tafalla, even Iruña.

Luckily this didn't change after the Reconquista! Jewish people were mainly merchants and moneylenders - profession banned for Christians - and they would work with peasants and nobility alike. They were also wine makers, and this wine was very much appreciated not only in the kingdom of Navarre, but also in Aragón and Castile. Navarrese kings supported Jewish communities and welcomed any Jew from other region.

There's a tragic but moving story about this time. The Jewish community of Gasteiz was forced to leave, but they agreed to hand over their cemetery to the city on the condition of respect the ground and don't build on it. The promise was respected for 460 years until 1952, when Jewish representatives agreed with the town hall that the ground was available for any use. Nowadays, it's a park with this monument to Jewish people. The neighborhood is called Judimendi, "the mountain of Jewish people".

In fact, when the kingdom of Castile ordered the expulsion of Jews from Castile, most of them moved to the kingdom of Navarre. But after the conquest by Castile in 1512, Jews and Muslims were effectively expelled from their home. Most of them didn't go too far, just across the border, to Baiona.

Baiona welcomed Basque, Spanish and Portuguese Jews, gathering a very important community that led to call the town the little Jerusalem at one time. There's a much modern legacy there than south the border, for example, there's still a functioning synagogue.

After the French revolution, Jews were reocgnised the same rights and duties than any other French, so they kept their businesses and in Baiona, many of them devoted themselves to chocolate - still one of the best in Europe, I must add.

But during WW2 and nazi occupation, maaaany of these Jewish people were captured and led to extermination camps. The community didn't die, though, and they welcomed a new wave of Jewish refugees in the 60s due to the French-Algerian war.

René Cassin, one of the fathers of the Declaration of Human Rights, was a Jew from Baiona, btw.

Nowadays in Euskadi there are just around 300 Jews, while in Iparralde this figure is bigger but not super high (just around ~3,000 in the whole Aquitaine).

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corniche basque

[dabid-motozalea]

Donostia, mi casa..

😍

[hauntedbystorytelling]

Tomás Acillona (1893 - 1957) ~ Autochrome 1922 | src gomas-bicromatadas on IG

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[retrogeographie]

Biarritz.

[leparfumdesreves]

TAPA APPELÉE BANDERILLE

D'origine du nord de l'Espagne, L'une des tapas populaires servies dans les bars du Pays Basque, est la "Banderilla". 

Elles tirent leur nom des lances, une extrémité porte la lance et l'autre du papier froissé de différentes couleurs, utilisées lors des Corridas par les "banderilleros", qui tentent de les planter dans les épaules du taureau. 

"La banderilla", en tant que "tapa" froide aigre-épicée, est composée d'olives vertes, de poivrons verts marinés épicés appelés guindillas, d'anchois ou de thon conservés dans de l'huile d'olive et de concombres marinés embrochés ensemble . 

Parfois, d'autres ingrédients marinés comme des oignons, du poivron rouge ou des carottes sont ajoutés.

Pour la réaliser, il vous faut...

• Olives vertes

• Poivrons verts marinés  épicés 

• Concombres marinés

• Anchois en conserve

• Brochettes

Égouttez et embrochez les ingrédients sur les cure-dents ou les brochettes. 

Servir avec de la bière fraîche...😋