FEASTING BASQUE IN BOISE
Apr 23, 2019
3 minutes
By Drew Dodson
SAINT IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA likely never expected to be revered in Boise, Idaho, of all places, more than 6,000 miles from his birthplace in Spain’s Basque province of Gipuzkoa. Then again, most would not expect the largest Basque community outside of the Basque Country (Euskadi), which straddles France and Spain, to call Idaho’s capital city home.
Each summer at the end of July, thousands of people flood downtown Boise’s famous Basque Block during the San Inazio Festival to honor Saint Ignatius and
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