October 25, Basque Country Day

The Euskadiko Eguna -or Basque Country Day- is a public holiday celebrated on October 25 to commemorate the date of the ratification of the Law of Self-Government of the Basque Autonomous Community, known as the Statute of Gernika , in a referendum in 1979.

A date already significant before, since on the same October 25, 1839, the law was approved confirming the Basque Provinces and Navarre without prejudice to the constitutional unity of the Monarchy.

A day when the streets of the Basque Country are filled with Ikurriñas to commemorate this date.

Meaning and history of The Ikurriña

Of Basque origin, the Ikurriña is the official flag of the Basque Country adopted by the Statute of Autonomy of 1979. It was first proclaimed as official flag by the government of Euskadi in 1936. It is also used as the Basque flag and has no official status in other territories that Basque nationalism considers members of Euskal Herria.

It was created in 1894 by the brothers Luis and Sabino Arana (the founder of the Basque Nationalist Party), and at first corresponded, within the series of flags they designed, to the one that identified the territory of Biscay. Later it came to represent the six Basque territories and, with the constitution of the autonomous community of the Basque Country, it was adopted as its official flag..

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Cover image: The ikurriña: a bilbainada. El Español. The ikurriña invented by Sabino Arana Goiri and represented in a handkerchief designed by Luis Arana, with the effigy of Sabino Arana.