Showing posts with label Giants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Giants. Show all posts

Sunday, June 05, 2016

The giants of Pamplona's Basque culture

 
 

We saw these Basque giants in the town of Reus, but you get the idea.
 
 
The community center where I swim had a couple of 13-foot giants on display last week, and a sign said they would be "dancing" as part of a neighborhood Basque culture festival. Cindy and I decided to go check it out (50-second video below).




Pamplona is politically outside the Basque Autonomous Region (we're in Navarra), but the northern part of the city is culturally very Basque. We live in Etxacaboiz (etch-a-ka-BOYTZ), on the border with Barañáin, a couple of good Basque place names.