Theme Week Basque Country – Mauléon-Licharre
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Mauléon-Licharre (
Basque : Maule-Lextarre;
Occitan : Maulion e Lisharra) is a
French commune with 2,954 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2021) in the
Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the
Basque part of the
Nouvelle-Aquitaine region (before 2016:
Aquitaine ). The two towns only united into one municipality in 1841.
The double municipality of Mauléon-Licharre is located on the Saison , a tributary of the Gave d’Oloron , about 228 kilometers (driving distance) south of Bordeaux and about 90 kilometers southeast of Bayonne . The next largest town is Oloron-Sainte-Marie (about 31 kilometers to the east).
Pilota Square in Haute-Ville © Iñaki LL/cc-by-sa-4.0
About three kilometers south of Mauléon, archaeologists have discovered the prehistoric hilltop fortress of Gastelugain, located about 200 meters above the town of
Libarrenx and estimated to be around 4,000 years old. The existence of a similar complex on the castle hill of Mauléon is suspected. Since the
Basque language was only written down in the 16th century, very little is known about the early and medieval history of the entire region or individual places – only a few place and personal names from earlier times have survived. The Silviet, the traditional gathering of the men of the
Pays de Soule (Basque: Xiberoa or Ziberua), gathered in the forest of Libarrenx in the 17th and early 18th centuries.
Like almost everywhere in the Basque Country, field and pasture farming played the dominant role in people’s lives for centuries. The soil is fertile and the proximity to the Atlantic and the Pyrenees in the south means there is sufficient rainfall. In the past, the Basques lived according to the principle of self-sufficiency, i.e. the proceeds from the fields and livestock farming were consumed within the family. Several types of cheese are produced in the region – the best known are:
Ossau-Iraty , a semi-hard cheese made from sheep’s milk, and
Etorki , a hard cheese made from sheep’s milk. In the 19th and 20th centuries, a little industry was added that was based on the traditional craft skills of the population – so Mauléon-Licharre became the French center for
espadrille production.
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