Bayonne
The seven activists who helped 36 migrants cross the border by running have been acquitted
In March 2024, 36 migrants crossed the Santiago de Irun bridge with Korrika and with the help of several activists, seven of whom were prosecuted by the French justice system, for whom he requested a penalty of up to 10 years and a fine of 250,000 euros.
Several trains from the Northern Basque Country will be suspended tomorrow due to the Nils storm
The official portrait of Marie Leczinska, Queen of France, exhibited at the Bonnat Helleu Museum in Bayonne
The portrait of Queen Mary of France dates back to 1748. The original version is in the Palace of Versailles and has been ceded to the museum of Bayonne by a family of Mexican and Basque origin.
In the first ten weeks of opening the renovated museum you have received more than 50,000 visitors in Bonnat Helleu; 30% bayonets, another third Basques and the rest from outside.
Four EHE activists have been expelled from the Baiona court for attempting to testify in Basque
A-63 has been reopened after four days of blockade
The opening of the road will ease the traffic jams on the border with Lapurdi, where long lines of trucks have accumulated these days, yet the agricultural sector conflict remains open.
The first book printed in Basque "Linguae Vasconum Primitiae" has its last day in the Basque Country
Bernart Etxepare wrote the first book published in Basque in 1545 in Bordeaux. The National Library of France has only one copy of it and has been exhibited in the last three months at the Basque Museum in Bayonne. Although various institutions and elected representatives have requested its stay, it will return to the library in Paris to keep it in the dark for three years.
EU countries have given their approval to the signing of an agreement with the countries of Mercosur
France and Hungary, among others.
A63 and secondary roads are collapsed in Bayonne by peasant protests
The Prefecture of the Atlantic Pyrenees has reported that at 02:00, 80 asymptomatic farmers, using 60 tractors, have blocked the A63 motorway at the height of the northern link of Bayonne dute and since morning there have been major problems in the vicinity, and the Prefecture has also closed the Biriatou border for trucks in both directions.
Goretti has shaken the Basque Country with extreme winds of 147 km/h
From Friday, rain, strong winds and snow are expected at ever lower levels, so yellow and orange warnings have been activated for the weekend.
The ban on cycling in downtown Bayonne has aroused the anger of environmentalists and advocates of sustainable mobility
The A-64 motorway linking Baiona and Toulouse in France has been partially opened
The cold will catch Christmas Eve on the threshold of an icy Christmas
The rain and the fall of temperatures will be the protagonists of Christmas Eve in the Basque Country. We will have Christmas on the same road: cold, frost and snow at low levels.
Welcome to Olentzero and Mari Domingi in Baiona
According to custom, they have arrived in the Labour capital by trainer along the Er￮ river. They have both stressed that they will bring not only gifts, but also Euskera and hope.
The Biriatou toll will be closed tonight because of the A-63 works
The Biriatou toll will be closed from Tuesday night to Wednesday night due to the A-63 works
It will be closed on December 9th at 21:00 and reopened on December 10th at 06:00. Vehicles and trucks from the AP-8 to Lapurdi will have to leave Irun.
Rain and low temperatures will dominate the first week of December in the Basque Country
From Monday, the weather will stabilize. However, on Tuesday a new cold round will bring rain and covered skies; and temperatures will drop; and ice will be brought at the highest points.
The Bonnat-Helleu Museum has been reopened with the presence of the mayor of Bayonne and the representatives of the French and Basque Culture
The French Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati, the mayor of Baiona, Jean-René Etchegaray, and the Minister of Culture of the Basque Government, Ibone Bengoetxea , among others, have been present for 14 years at a cost of 29 million euros.
That's the new face of the Bonnat-Helleu Museum in Bayonne, after 14 years of restoration
The museum closed its doors to the public in April 2011 to facilitate its restructuring and double its surface area from 2000 to 4,000 square metres.
There will be news: the 40th anniversary of the murder of Mikel Zabalza, the Michelin stars and the Bonnat-Helleu Museum in Baiona reopened
A summary, in two words, of what will be news in the Present today.
The Bonnat-Helleu Museum in Baiona opens its doors today after 14 years of work and a duplicate exhibition space
The renovation of the museum has involved an investment of EUR 29 million, which has made it possible to double the exhibition space to 2,000 square metres, an area which is expected to provide the size of the 7,000 works preserved by the institution.