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Baztandarren Biltzarra (Festivals-Events)

Baztandarren Biltzarra is the brotherhood festival of the villages of the Baztan Valley. It has been held in Elizondo since 1963 on the Sunday the fe(...)Read the article

Banco de San Sebastián (Donostiako Bankua), 1909-1975 (Industries)

The gestation and trajectory of the Banco de San Sebastián, founded in 1909, was very particular. The creation of what we could call the new Banco de(...)Read the article

Banco de Vizcaya (Services)

Banco de Vizcaya was set up in 1901 as a mixed trading and investment bank, and early on it penetrated the Spanish industrial and energy sector, creat(...)Read the article

Peréx Agorreta, María Jesús (Historians)

Historian. Graduate in Geography and History, specialising in Ancient History, from the Complutense University of Madrid and PhD in Ancient History fr(...)Read the article

Díaz De Espada Buesa, María Paz (Painters)

A watercolourist, painter and engraver, she was born in Vitoria on 14 December 1931.A member of the Agrupación de Acuarelistas Vascos, with which she(...)Read the article

Sociedad para la Promoción y Reconversión Industrial (Services)

SPRISPRI, an acronym for Sociedad para la Promoción y Reconversión Industrial, its original name, is a development agency created by the Basque Gove(...)Read the article

FANDERIA (Lexicon)

An industrial method of working iron, independent of the forges in the 18th century, where different parts were manufactured, such as iron strips and (...)Read the article

ARTIKUTZA (Neighbourhoods)

Estate belonging to Donostia-San Sebastián (Gipuzkoa), located in the Navarrese town of Goizueta.In 1919, the Donostia-San Sebastián Town Council bo(...)Read the article

ANSÓ ERASUN, José Joaquín (Handball)

Navarrese pelota player born in Oiz-Oitz (Maldaerreka) on 16 February 1957. Although he was a handball player, he was junior champion in 1973, in the (...)Read the article

The Ubao Case (Concept)

Adelaida de Ubao e Icaza, a young girl from Bilbao under the age of 18, from a very Catholic and wealthy family, decided to enter the convent of the H(...)Read the article

Arvizu Galarraga, Fernando (Jurists)

Navarrese lawyer born in Pamplona on 14 October 1950. Doctorate in Law from the University of Navarre (1975). 1978 and 1979 he was a lecturer in Histo(...)Read the article

GROS, Tomas (Biographies)

A neighbour of Donostia-San Sebastián who gave his name to one of the most popular neighbourhoods of modern Donostia. When the City Council decided i(...)Read the article

IRRINTZI (Lexicon)

It is a shrill, sonorous, prolonged, one-breath cry that shepherds like to make resound on the flanks of the mountains and that the Basques in general(...)Read the article

El Concepto de Género (Concept)

The concept of gender refers to the dynamic, historical and changing process by which the meaning that being a woman or a man acquires in a given soci(...)Read the article

APALANTZA, Gorka (Motorsport)

Driver from Guipuzcoa, born in Errezil. He started out in the world of karting, later dedicating himself to the rallysprint modality. Guided by André(...)Read the article

Chillida Belzunce, Eduardo (Painters)

A painter from Guipuzcoa born in San Sebastian in 1964, son of a sculptor.He began to develop his artistic skills at a very early age, his first engra(...)Read the article

ALDAZABAL ARRILLAGA, Ignacio (Handball)

Aldazabal II. Hand pelota player. A fullback player, he was Spanish amateur junior champion. In 1973 he made his professional debut in Eibar, with Pas(...)Read the article

Paper industry (Concept)

Papermaking technology went through several stages. Initially, it was made by hand, by shredding rags in vats using piles driven by hydraulic power (p(...)Read the article

Echeverría Pagola, Abilio (Poets)

Poet born in Ugar de Yerri (Navarra) in 1915. Died on September 9, 1997.He studied Humanities and Philosophy with the Franciscan Fathers. Later he spe(...)Read the article

NEW PHOENICIA (Lexicon)

Name given to the "Basque National State" which was to result from the unification of the Basque Countries of France and Spain under the protection of(...)Read the article