During four decades of violence, the Basque separatist group ETA claimed to be fighting for the Basque people's right to self-determination. But the group ignored the fact that most Basques rejected ...

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 ...

Bill Fitzhugh maps the blacksmith’s shop’s floor, 2008. The Smithsonian research vessel PItsuilak rides at anchor in the bay. Fitzhugh and his team live aboard the boat, which takes its name from the ...

LITERATURE often flourishes like certain kinds of plants, between the cracks in walls that gardeners have forgotten to tend. It can spring from the oppressed, impoverished, ignored. “An Anthology of ...

Rural traditions are central to Basque identity, and to their claim to being a nation, different from the rest of Spain. One such tradition took place Saturday in the Basque village of Azpeitia: the ...

It is possible to trace the history of Boise’s Basque community through the pages of the Idaho Statesman, as we have done for the past 40 years – their work, their play, their family life and their ...

With more Michelin stars per capita than any city on Earth, San Sebastián is the gastronomic center of Spain, and possibly the world. And the world has taken notice. Dry, tart, and barely carbonated, ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Every year as the sun climbs high at the time of the summer solstice, I gather up my tribe of food-obsessed friends for a mass migration to a remote Sierra Nevada meadow where we bake some bread. It's ...

Discover how the Basque people, speakers of a unique non-Indo-European language, challenge our understanding of European ancestry. The labels are Dienekes', so don't take them literally. Additionally, ...

WITH THEIR unique language, unrelated to all other European tongues, the continent’s oldest cave paintings, and their seafaring, gastronomic and choral traditions, the Basques have long had a strong ...