Overview
- Municipalities in Debabarrena and wider Gipuzkoa have published final programmes for Saturday that include children’s workshops, parades (kalejira), storytelling and the symbolic burning of ‘beldurrak’ (fears).
- Azpeitia will hold a second, tradition-focused Gau Beltza on October 31 organised by a local parents’ group with municipal backing and preparatory costume and pumpkin workshops for children.
- Mutriku and several Tolosaldea towns put special emphasis on recovering local folk elements such as the Axuri Beltza parade, the Talaixako Mamua burning and fire-bull (su-zezena) spectacles with chestnut meals to close evenings.
- The Euskal Herriko Bertsolari Txapelketa final on December 20 at Iruñea’s Nafarroa Arena is sold out and organisers say the show can be followed remotely while offering €20 bus tickets via Aizpurua Autobusak and arena meals priced at €18 and €30.
- Local organisers require prior sign-up for many workshops, encourage traditional dress to reinforce Basque customs, and expect these community events to strengthen language and ritual transmission while offering safer, family-centred alternatives to commercial Halloween practices.