BASQUE COUNTRY

DREAM AND MADNESS: WHERE EVERYTHING HAS STARTED

I started my life as a traveller in the Basque Country.
The Sardinians have a long history with the Basques, and I wanted to experience that first-hand.
I decided to travel solo in this heart-shaped nation.

It was one of the easiest trips I’ve ever taken. I sailed to Barcelona and then drove all the way, about 1,700 km in 15 days. I felt ready to make this trip alone after getting behind the wheel.

Later on, I spent other weekends in Bilbo and Iruña.
Each time I looked back thinking that my travel has begun here, dreaming of madness, with the madness of dreaming.

WHEN A LANGUAGE DOES A NATION

You cannot come here without trying to understand independence.
You’ve got to go beyond the flags of ikurrina in the balconies or the road signs written first in Basque and then, maybe, in Spanish or French.
Into every pub you will find photos of men and women prisoners that parents and friends ask to come back closer to home.

The history of the Basque People is between an inscription consumed by the fight and a new mural in a “pelota” field, the basque ball game.

The Basque language is called Euskera, and the Basque Country is called Euskal Herria, which literally means “the people who speak the Basque language”.

Basque People has never been able to live freely within its borders, so the euskera has always represented the element of union of its people.

It is considered an isolated language, with no connection with other languages, the only pre-Indo-European language that survived the invasions after 1200 BC.