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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.
Set of ceramics from Busturia. Labayru Fundazioa Photographic Archive.
St Mammes Ceramics in Busturia appears to have operated for barely a couple of decades, approximately from 1842 to 1862, and still remains largely unknown. It was erected on the ruins of an ancient tile factory in the neighbourhood of Axpe, on the right bank of the Urdaibai estuary opposite Kanala, on the site where the house known as Villa Matilde stands today. (more…)
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