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Zubieta in the Basque Pyrenees

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Georgina Howard
Wednesday, 17 August 2022 / Published in Basque Culture and Tradition, Basque Mythology, Ituren carnivals, The Basque Language, Visit the Pyrenees, Walking in the Pyrenees, Zubieta carnivals
Typical farmhouse in Zubieta
Zubieta is a traditional Basque village in the Pyrenees, its contrasts and contradictions, values of equality, honour and 'hard graft' are typical of Basque mountain life.
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Ituren Carnivals – and a Brummy in their midst

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Georgina Howard
Wednesday, 28 January 2015 / Published in Basque Culture and Tradition, Basque Lifestyle, Ituren carnivals
Me, Marion and Iñaki with out neighbours in Ituren
I know, I know, I have written about the Ituren carnivals many times before (see links below) but the reaction is so raw, so overwhelming  each single time we participate that I feel compelled to put it down. They are not my people, I am from a ‘middle-class’ Birmingham suburb with Accessorise and John Lewis down
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El Día del Joaldunak (When I got the dates wrong!)

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Georgina Howard
Tuesday, 24 July 2012 / Published in Basque Culture and Tradition, Basque Lifestyle, Ituren carnivals
Xabier, Ituren Joaldunak.
It is the day that only the villagers know about, (and me) and last year I got it terribly wrong! This is the private day of the Joaldunak – the mythical, pagan, carnival personality of our village of Ituren. This is the day they make their personal pilgrimage to our mountain farms in honour of
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Carnivals of Ituren & Zubieta 2011

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Georgina Howard
Wednesday, 09 February 2011 / Published in Basque Culture and Tradition, Basque Food, Basque Lifestyle, Ituren carnivals
Bears in the plaza during the Ituren carnivals
Ituren Carnival: 31st January 2011 After a mug of hot broth, (caldo), traditionally made from boiled pork and chickens feet, we climbed the steps to the attic rooms above the town hall and plunged into a frenzy of bells and ropes, of sheep’s skins and brightly-coloured swaddling ribbons. No, don’t be misled by the pretty pinks
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Carnival Time Again – The Bustle of Life in Ameztia

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Georgina Howard
Thursday, 20 January 2011 / Published in Basque Culture and Tradition, Basque Lifestyle, Ituren carnivals
The home of the Joaldunak
I just popped in on Amatxi yesterday and she was bent double over the kitchen table taking in the waist on her grandson’s lace petticoats. Carnival time is coming .. by far the most exciting and loved moment of the year for our village of Ituren.  There is a general buzz everywhere, groups of youths congregating in farm sheds and clinks
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Carnivals in Ituren. Recognised by UNESCO.

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Georgina Howard
Tuesday, 20 April 2010 / Published in Basque Culture and Tradition, Basque Lifestyle, Ituren carnivals
The Basque Carnivals of Ituren, Zubieta and Lantz in the tiny mountain villages of the Spanish Pyrenees have now been officially  recognised by UNESCO as an invaluable part of Europe’s cultural heritage!* (The mysterious nature of the Basques, their inscrutable language and impenetrability of the Pyrenees has long kept the prying eyes of the 21st
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