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Tree and Assembly House of Gernika

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Posted on 2020-10-09 in

Tree of Gernika and adjacent church. El oasis. Viaje al país de los fueros [The oasis. Journey to the land of chartered laws], by Juan Mañé y Flaquer. Barcelona, 1880. Euskal Biblioteka. Labayru Fundazioa.

In many parts of the world, particularly in Europe, certain trees have been silent witnesses to a great deal of agreements reached at neighbourhood meetings. Next to them stood usually a hermitage or an aedicule and a stone table, or, as in the case of Gernika, a tribune where swearings-in took place. As Caro Baroja points out, trees, and singularly oak trees, have a profound meaning in collective, political and legal life. (more…)

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