Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The baserri at the Chillida Museum in Hernani. A baserri (Basque pronunciation:; Spanish: caserío vasco; French: maison basque) is a traditional half-timbered or stone-built type of housebarn farmhouse found in the Basque Country in northern Spain and Southwestern France.
It is not known which was exactly the first Basque center that was created in this epoch, but it is possible to be the Basque Center of Havana, the capital city of Cuba in 1868, even though until now it was the Basque Center of Montevideo, in 1876. The certain thing is that it was a very extended phenomenon in the whole of America.
The graveyard has a small number of stone Basque crosses. There are several traditional Basque houses around the square, characterised by their pink sandstone lintels and half-timbers, including the 1628 Maison Sastriarena, where the Bishops of Bayonne were entertained , and the Maison Harizmendi, where the prelate who married Louis XIV and ...
The Basque Wikipedia (Basque: Euskarazko Wikipedia [1] or Euskal Wikipedia) is the Basque language edition of Wikipedia. Founded on 6 December 2001, [ 2 ] although its main page was created in November 2003, it reached 58,124 articles by 19 August 2010, making it the 45th-largest Wikipedia. [ 3 ]
The Basque language, which was traditionally spoken by most of the region's population outside the BAB urban zone, is today rapidly losing ground to French. The French Basque Country's lack of self-government within the French state is coupled with the absence of official status for the Basque language in the region.
At a place known originally as “Les Savournins Bas” in Gordes, the open-air museum created by Pierre Viala in 1976 under the name of “Village des Bories”.. Village des Bories is an open-air museum of 20 or so dry stone huts located 1.5 km west of the Provençal village of Gordes, in the Vaucluse department of France.
Basque Cultural Heritage (Basque: Euskal Kultura Ondasuna, Spanish: Patrimonio Cultural Vasco) is a designation granted by the Basque Government to movable properties, immovable properties and intangible heritage of the Basque Country, Spain. The current law governing the designation was enacted in 2019, superseding the first one from 1990.
As a historical region, the French Basque Country saw its borders evolve significantly before and during the Ancien Régime.For example, while the integration of Lower Navarre into French territory is discussed later in the article, the particular situation of the territories located north of the current department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques during the two centuries preceding the Revolution is ...