MADRID — A small sport popular in Spain’s northern Basque Country has stirred up a political controversy that triggered court action and fanned the region's long-held feelings of nationalism. There ...

The land of the Basque people, split between Spain and France, is a “nation without a state” — left off the map when they drew Europe’s national borders. The Basque Country is often left out of travel ...

The Guggenheim Museum's permanent collection includes works by Mark Rothko and Sol LeWitt. Photograph by Kike Calvo, Nat Geo Image Collection You could almost call Spain’s Basque Country a tale of ...

The origins of the Basque issue took shape after the Spanish Civil War. Following roughly three years of conflict between the Republicans and Nationalists, the fascist leader Franco established a ...

Despite the small scope of the Basque Country -- it has an area of less than 3,000 square miles -- Basque cuisine has a premier position in the culinary world. Straddling the Spanish-French border, ...

I first visited Bilbao, Spain, in the 1980s, before the Guggenheim Museum was built and the city was featured in prominent TV and film, like James Bond. While my then-beau rehearsed with the Bilbao ...

All seven Israeli players scheduled to play in this week’s Basque Country chess championship have withdrawn from the tournament after organisers attempted to remove the nation’s flag. The 40th Basque ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Guggenheim Museum's permanent collection includes works by Mark Rothko and Sol LeWitt. Photograph by Kike Calvo, Nat Geo Image ...