Overview

• The Siadeco report finds only five municipalities remain in the top-use bracket, all in Gipuzkoa, with just 0.3% of the population living in areas above 80% daily use and 4.2% in zones above 60%.
• An international conference in Azpeitia this Thursday and Friday will examine ‘arnasguneak’ with case studies from Ireland, Wales, Frisia, Scotland, Catalonia, South Tyrol and Voivodina, backed by the Basque Government, Gipuzkoa and European funds.
• Public reckoning continues over the 1985 Monbar Hotel killings as Justice Minister María Jesús San José apologized to victims’ families at a new exhibition opening in Donostia.
• Local cultural activation is rolling out with the Gipuzkoan Gazte Tour in Aia supported by extra Lurraldebus services, a free ten-film Euskera program for children returning in Irun, and Oiartzun’s Topaleku youth center reopening with Sunday hours and revived sexuality counseling.
• Community and heritage calendars include Idiazabal’s shepherd-cheese championship with an Alboka gathering, Barakaldo’s Bunker fair on Oct 24–26, Mendaro’s Oct 17–19 solidarity beer fair for Aspanogi, and Fagus Alkiza biodiversity days on Oct 25–26 with talks, a field walk and preview visits to the new interpretation center.