Spain

The Basque Government’s official register today recognises nine Basque bodies in Spain, spread across Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Palma, Valladolid, Zaragoza and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Some go back to the middle of the twentieth century and others are only a few years old.¹

Madrid has two, the Euskal Etxea-Hogar Vasco de Madrid and the Federación de Centros “Euskal Herria”, at the same address.¹ The federation also had its part in mus: in 1988 and 1989, the pair who won the championship among the Basque centres of Spain represented it at the world championship of Basque centres.² In Barcelona there is the Euskal Etxea-Centre Cultural.¹

Valencia has another two. The Centro Vasco Navarro Laurak Bat, founded in 1950, moved into new premises next to the Mercat Central on 28 September 2018 because the old ones had become too small, and with them gained a larger classroom for Basque classes; it organises cinema, literature, gastronomy, the Korrika, mus, music and dance.⁷ Alongside it, the association Euskaltzaleok, founded in 2010, is also recognised.¹

The Euskal Etxea Artea, in Palma de Mallorca, has three dates of origin: according to the Basque Government, its history goes back to 1987 and its official founding is from 1997, while the register gives 1995 as its founding date. It celebrated its 25th anniversary on 2 July 2022 with some two hundred people at the Son Rapinya fronton, which the first Basques on the island had built years before.⁸¹

In Valladolid there is the Centro Vasco Gure Txoko, founded in 1983 according to the register.¹ In 1989 its mus pair represented the federation at the world championship of Basque centres, in Mexico, after the Valencia pair withdrew.² The two most recent centres are the Zaragozako Euskal Etxea-Casa Vasca de Zaragoza, founded in 2013, and Mamia Euskal Etxea, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, founded in 2023.¹

Four other cities had a recognised centre and no longer appear on the official list: Salou, with the Centro Vasco Txoko Lagun Artea (1988); Murcia, with its Euskal Etxea (2002); Málaga, with the Casa Vasca de Málaga; and Logroño, with the cultural association Laminiturri.¹