TOKYO, Japan — The Boise Basque Block was eerily quiet this weekend due to the absence of the once-every-five-years celebration known as Jaialdi. The event was supposed to wrap up on Sunday following ...

Spanish archaeologists have decoded engravings on the Hand of Irulegi, a bronze relic dating back 2,100 years to Vascones, a late-Iron Age tribe preceding Basque culture. Discovered in Navarre in 2021 ...

BOISE, Idaho — Generations after Basques from Spain and France came to work in the West’s sheep camps and boardinghouses, their descendants can hear their voices and glimpse their faces on the ...

Singing a long-forbidden song, a knot of youths surged into Pamplona’s Plaza Mayor one day last week and, with a lusty cheer, sent two homemade rockets sizzling into the sky. While police ...

The Basques are a unique population in Western Europe; their language is not related to any Indo-European language. Furthermore, genetically speaking, they have been considered to have distinct ...

Most of the characteristics that distinguish the Basques of Spain are mysterious. In vain, linguists have studied their tongue-trilling language, still spoken by a million Basques, for similarity to ...

Glendora Continental opened in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains 45 years ago — a Basque-owned restaurant that draws a devoted local crowd. California’s Basque restaurants are dwindling, and ...

Last year, when Landon Thompson set out to open a Basque restaurant in Atlanta, he found himself in the challenging position of trying to balance the old and the new. The Basques have a “violent ...

The land of the Basque people, split between Spain and France, is a "nation without a state” – left off the map when they drew Europe's national borders. Basque Country is often left out of travel ...