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The Basque community in Baradero, in the province of Buenos Aires, held an event at the city’s Historic Museum to commemorate, as every year, the feast of San Ignacio of Loyola.  At the same time, the Basque club also commemorated the Bicentennial of Argentina’s Independence and unveiled a plaque at the entrance of the local Museum. 

Baradero, Argentina.  Even if throughout the year, the Aurrera Basque Club in Baradero doesn’t hold activities like other community, it does celebrate the Feast of San Ignacio along with its members and friends.  That is why the Basque Club held a ceremony at the city’s Alejandro Barbich Historic Museum where they were joined by representatives from the Swiss, Irish, Croatian, French and Spanish communities who sent their standard bearers.

The event began with the Argentine National Anthem, also in sign language, and was attended by Mayor Fernanda Antonijevic, the local Secretary of Culture, Marcos Barlatay, and the Director of Culture Julio Avila.  Next the dantzari and member of the club’s board, Jimena Angulo danced the Aurresku for the authorities.

Before concluding the ceremony, and as part of the many activities throughout the country, the club also acknowledged the Bicentennial of Argentina’s Independence by unveiling a plaque at the entrance of the museum.  After the event, members of the club provided typical Basque sweets to those presence as they do every year for San Ignacio.

As club secretary, Griselda Esconjaureguy told EuskalKultura.com, “it was a really beautiful event where the mayor addressed some very meaningful words about Basque immigration and was also moved by the Aurresku.”

Our Grandparents II

Esconjaureguy also let us know that along with the club president of Aurrera, “Neska” Ines Longina de Elorduy, they have begun working on the second part of the book Our Grandparents. Remember that the first was presented last year as part of the city’s Quadricentennial celebrations.

“In the second part we are including the history of our Euskal Etxea s well as the families who were left of the first edition,” the club’s secretary said.  The book is currently in the phase of data gathering and will be published later in 2017.