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Old-time working bee. Zeanuri (Bizkaia). Felipe Manterola

Old-time working bee. Zeanuri (Bizkaia). Felipe Manterola Collection. Labayru Fundazioa Photographic Archive.

In Basque-speaking locations the provision of services to the neighbourhood is known as auzolana. Communal work was more common in the past, partly because provincial and local councils have budgets to cover a wider range of needs and wants for all now than before. Such mandatory works for the community to which every household still contributes in some localities in Álava are there called veredas(more…)