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 ...

You could almost call Spain’s Basque Country a tale of three cities. Known as Euskadi in the Basques’ distinctive language, the northern Spanish region, which edges the French border to the east and ...

Near a fishing village on the Iberian Peninsula, someone had painted on a concrete wall in big blue letters: WELCOME TO THE BASQUE COUNTRY. Below that, in even bigger all caps: THIS IS NOT SPAIN NOR ...