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Sydney, Australia.  Sydney’s Basque club was the meeting place for that city’s Catalan community, last Sunday, who celebrated the Diada in the club’s fronton.  In reality, the official celebration of the Diada took place yesterday in Catalonia, but in the antipodes this group of Basque and Catalan friends decided to push the celebration up to the weekend so that as many people as possible could attend.

This is not a new event – it is the third year that the Diada has been celebrated in Sydney at Gure Txoko and as in previous years, the ambience was wonderful with tickets selling out days before the event.  Finally, full to capacity, the Basque center welcomed a few hundred people who enjoyed a meal in the fronton, visited with friends, and enjoyed good music and dancing well into the night.

[Sydney’s Basque club welcomed visitors decorated with ikurriñas and the Catalan flag for the occasion (photo SydneyEE)]

 [A spectacular paella was the menu of the day, for which tickets sold out (photo Sydney EE)]

The Catalan information portal Vilaweb has published a story about the event in Catalan that can be read here.