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Villages Festivals


The village festivals are held from 6 to 10 August. These are days that pay honor to the saints San Donato and San Lorenzo. During holidays and activities have local competitions and rural character and sets up a huge festival program in which all people of the people involved. There can identify rural sports competitions, folklore demonstrations, tasting delicacies (cider tasting, txakoli, sardines, marmitako ...).


 Festivities in the neighborhoods

Along with the festivities, you can not exclude them from those on the neighborhoods. In every neighborhood festivals are organized in honor of the saint who guards the neighborhood. They never miss shows for children and adults, pilgrimages, music, exhibition of rural sports ... The organization of the party is run by a committee composed of neighborhood residents, who join together to organize various activities for the locals .

 In the Urdaneta neighborhood celebrate their festivals in November coinciding with the saints of St. Martin.
 In the Elkano Andatza neighborhood  and is held in honor of San Pedro, at the end of June.
 In the Erreka neighborhood is in late July when they celebrate the Santiagos.
 In the Laurgain neighborhood celebrate the festival of San Miguel in late September.
 In the Altzola neighborhood celebrate the festival of San Roman, November 18.
 Iturriotz held in San Juan in late June.


 Ascension Fair

Fair livestock, agriculture and handicrafts, in which attendees can taste the different products handmade in the villages of the site such as cheese, cider, txakoli, jams ...

 This fair is held the Sunday after Ascension Day. (Between May and June).


 Plant Fair Collection

Venue: Information Centre Iturraran Pagoeta Natural Park.
 Dates: Last weekend in April.

 www.iturraran.org
 

 Rural sports and other sports
 
 The Basque sport is play and work, challenge or competition that continues and sublimates some everyday tasks. Few people have as much inclination to become Basque bet any confrontation, whether of skill, intelligence or strength. And is that through the betting, gambling and sport is open to participation: all, in one way or another, if they feel involved in the stake.


 Thus were born the majority of Basque sports, two or more neighboring certain amount of money bet to see who can cut more logs (aizkolaris), who lifted heavy stones or more times (harrijasotzailes), who reaped more stretch of grass (segalaris) who dragged faster stones with his oxen (Idi-likely) or your own body (gizon-Probe), or carrying weights from one point to another. Games all of rural origin clear.

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