Getaria, Gipuzkoa, a coastal town in the Basque province of Gipuzkoa
Actually, the linguist Henri Gavel put down the name of the town to the Gascon word getari, 'post for watching' (the whales), while this assumption has been disputed by current linguists, who trace the name back to latin caetaria, 'fish processing facility', supported by archaeological evidence unearthed both in Guéthary and the same name Getaria from Gipuzkoa.
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This game is still fairly widespread in the east of Biscay from Mendiola to Mutriku and parts of Gipuzkoa (the Deba valley), there are bolo federations for this variant at the cross-provincial level and annual leagues.
Sorgin Dantza from Oria (Gipuzkoa) is a comical or a burlesque dance that reach their peak in the Sorgin Dantza, or dance of the witches.
Overall the vast majority of important Neolithic sites are placed in the southern part of the country (Ebro valley): Fuente Hoz, Peña Larga, Berniollo and La Renke in Araba; Zatoia, Abauntz, Peña, Padre Areso and Urbasa 11 in Navarre; Herriko Barra in Gipuzkoa.
The bands receiving most votes in each Basque Spanish province were performing, namely RIP (from Gipuzkoa), Hertzainak (from Álava), Barricada (from Navarre) and Zarama (from Biscay).
Whaling was, for a long period of time, an important industry in the Basque Country, which is illustrated by the shield of the village of Getaria in Lapurdi
The Caristii are first mentioned by Roman sources; Pliny the Elder names them Carietes and places them in the Basque interior territories, what today is the southernmost regions of the Basque Country, while Ptolemy places them between the river Deba and Nervión, present-day provinces of Biscay and Gipuzkoa, with a territory triangle-shaped, reaching the city of Vitoria by the south.
Txindoki, a mountain in the Province of Gipuzkoa, Basque Country
After retiring, Ciriaco continued living in Eibar, and worked for several years in the Banco Guipuzcoano (Bank of Gipuzkoa).
The Company was founded by a group of wealthy Basques from the province of Gipuzkoa in 1728, under the leadership of the Count of Peñaflorida, Xavier María de Munibe e Idiáquez.
Félix Lavilla Muñarriz (11 June 1928, Pamplona – 14 January 2013 Madrid) was a Spanish pianist, composer and a well-known accompanist, son of a music teacher and band master of the municipal band of Errenteria in Gipuzkoa, Basque Autonomous Community.
Later he took part in the defense of the lines at the Gipuzkoa–Navarre border and, after St. Sebastian fell to the fascists, he continued armed resistance in Aragon, Catalonia, France (inside the French Resistance to Nazi occupation) and the Basque Country (trying to create guerrillas along the Franco–Spanish border).
Its most famous sons are Juan Sebastián Elcano, capitain of the Nao Victoria, Admiral Miguel de Oquendo, who commanded the Guipúzcoa Squadron of the Spanish Armada, the explorer Domingo de Bonechea, and the couturier Cristóbal Balenciaga Eizaguirre.
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In May 2012, a two-man team from Getaria won Google's "Model Your Town" competition by creating a complete 3D representation of their hometown.
The region has produced many famous Basque football players including José Ángel Iribar, Joseba Etxeberria, Xabi Alonso and Mikel Arteta.
Iztueta was born in Lazkao, in the Goierri region of the province of Gipuzkoa, in the Basque Autonomous Community in Northern Spain.
After only four league games in his first two seasons combined, Loren became an undisputed starter for the Gipuzkoa side, helping it to the 1987 Copa del Rey – he did not play the final against Atlético Madrid due to injury, however.
Oñate is an older spelling of Oñati, a town in Gipuzkoa, Spain
Pedro Antonio Olañeta (Elgueta, Gipuzkoa, Spain, 1770 - Tumusla (Potosí Department), Bolivia, April 2, 1825) was born of a humble family in Biscay province, Spain and emigrated with his parents to South America in 1797.
Salbatore Mitxelena (1919, Zarautz, Gipuzkoa, (Spain) – 1965 La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland), was a friar and a writer in the Basque language.
As a result, the king founded various strongholds or free towns (salvas terras, seguras and villas francas) over the lands of Gipuzkoa and Álava in route to Gascony through the northern Way of St. James, with a view at the same time to fostering Castilian trade.
In 2010, Fundaciónn Eduardo Domínguez Lobato and Círculo de Artesanos, in collaboration with the City Council and the promoters of the idea, grant the first Circumnavigation to Culture and History Awards, being first winners the cities of Sabrosa (birthplace of Ferdinand Magellan in Portugal), Getaria (birthplace of Juan Sebastián Elcano) and Sanlúcar de Barrameda itself (start and end of the expedition trip).
For the most part, it is not covered in forest just like most of the Gipuzkoan side of Aralar.