Welcome to Our Ancestral Home
A home that has been passed down from generation to generation and where a distinct language is spoken that mystifies linguists. The people who live here have almost never had their own country. But across the region, the desire for autonomy, independence and the release of political prisoners is scrawled in graffiti on countless bus shelters and walls.The region is stunningly beautiful and prosperous. Home buyers, holidaymakers and digital nomads come from far and wide to share this bounty. We have sold our country, activists lament. This unique area is slowly being incorporated into the world, despite all its traditions, despite all the resistance. But who can resist the laws of capitalism?
Shepherd FabienParty after the Masquerade
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De VolkskrantMedia Bask
“In ten years, we’ll be gone. Everything revolves around money, and one thing I know: money always wins.”
Anonymous farmer
Pays Basque @ Station V, BayonnePays Basque @ Kunsthal 45, Den Helder