The Basque culture has started the week with the chess of Durango: the 50th edition has passed and if we start to make balance there will be as many heads as heads. But there are things that nobody can argue about.

Full of content

The Fair suffered an identity crisis at the end of the years of economic heat. Pure consumption? And when people stop buying? The parallel initiatives of Ahotsenea have refilled with content in recent years. That has saved him.

Don't miss shoppers

For those working in the field of Basque culture, Durango is an opportunity to put the accounts of the year in order. The media focus of the fair also brings those who look far away at the Basque culture: it is now accountable.

In private, please

Despite the talks organized around the Fair, the most interesting cultural debates in Durango take place leaving behind Landako and Plateruena, in a small bar in the area of Palencia, where I do not want to remember names.