{"id":144027,"date":"2025-02-19T17:27:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T16:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turismovasco.com\/la-pala-a-traditional-sport-of-the-basque-country\/"},"modified":"2025-02-19T18:03:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T17:03:50","slug":"la-pala-a-traditional-sport-of-the-basque-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/turismovasco.com\/en\/basque-country\/la-pala-a-traditional-sport-of-the-basque-country\/","title":{"rendered":"La pala, a traditional sport of the Basque Country."},"content":{"rendered":"

Get to know, learn and enjoy paddle, a historical sport of our land.<\/h2>\n

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The pala, a sport often “covered” by another of our great sports, the Basque pelota or pelota mano, sneaks daily in our frontons making not fall into oblivion this tradition that has brought so many good times to our people. Currently, the pala is not going through one of its best stages, but thanks to the efforts of lovers of this sport and initiatives such as Innpala<\/a> is gradually recovering the importance it had in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. <\/p>\n

\"Spade<\/a>

Spade sign<\/p><\/div>\n

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History, competitions and curiosities of the shovel.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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History of the Shovel: <\/strong><\/span>The shovel and its origins are not entirely clear, rather confused. But, what we can testify, is that in the XVII and XVIII centuries the spade begins to be present in the Basque culture, example of it are the pictures painted by Murillo and Goya in which the spade is a clear protagonist. In 1904, with the organization of great paddle matches, the cycle of the modern paddle began, a great impulse for this sport. <\/p>\n

\"Paddlers\"<\/a>

Paddlers<\/p><\/div>\n

The Euskalduna fronton in Bilbao, inaugurated on April 14, 1895, following the example of the Beti-Jai fronton in Madrid, was the place where the first professional paddle court company in history was established, a fronton that was destroyed in 1937 due to the civil war. In 1939, the Euskalduna fronton was built again, this time with a totally modern style, but for economic reasons it was closed in 1957, leaving the city of Bilbao without major paddle events until 1967, the year in which the Club Deportivo fronton was inaugurated. Today, thanks to the fact that the institutions have taken over the responsibility they have with this sport, we can say that we are facing the resurgence of a great one of our frontons. <\/p>\n