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St Bartholomew’s Chapel, 2022. Labayru Fundazioa Photographic Archive.

On 21 October, the Ermitak busturiarren alkargune eta aterpe video was premiered in Busturia as part of the European Heritage Days. On the following day, there was an interesting guided tour, led by the archaeologist Juanjo Hidalgo, of the town’s different chapels.

In our traditional system, the homestead has been at the centre of family life and the district at the heart of neighbourhood life. Rural neighbourhoods are groups of homesteads and were formed to deal with problems that involved more than one specific home and where solving them were the responsibility of all the local residents. Therefore, relations between neighbours were very close, often more than within the family.

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