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| Presentation of Xareta :
Xareta is an association law 1901 of French right dating from September 2004, gathering 4 villages on the two side of the border: Ainhoa, Sare, Urdazubi-Urdax and Zugarramurdi. Geographical situation :
Common history :
Transborder bonds : Several inhabitant are linked by family bonds and all the secondary road network
was traced without holding account of the border posts.
Xareta became more known for its intense activity of smuggling, true local
religion where only sin was to be taken, and not so much for its prehistoric caves
or its monasteries. Economic and cultural development : In the end of the Nineties, Xareta launched a study on the valorization of the collective step of their territory which includes the village of Ainhoa to sign in 1999 a common way for their actions. Since 2002 and the signature of a convention of transborder co-operation renewable annually, it is in an official framework that the collaboration of the common skirts is exerted on the competences, now widened with the economic development (agriculture, pastoral economy and cultural and tourist promotion), with transport and communications, the infrastructures, the environment and with regional planning.
It is on these bases that the elected members of Xareta will continue their transborder projects in progress: excursion's creation through ways of Santiago, valorization of the monastery of Urdazubi-Urdax, creation of trilingual school, local radio, installation of a collect refuse, coordination of a network of medical urgencies or the territory's promotion by an annual event "Xareta Eguna".
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The
country of Xareta, zone of a few square kilometres, forms a common
basin of life on the two side of the border, around the villages Urdazubi-Urdax, Zugarramurdi, Ainhoa and Sare. The territory is
located near
mountains and
sea. Moreover, Xareta has a strong cultural
identity, thanks to the bonds of its inhabitants, who exceed the borders.
After
the declaration of war between France and Spain in March 1793, and following
the military rout of Sare, a decree of internment was taken against
Lapurtar, qualified of "makers
of prayers" and suspected to be Spain's spies. Approximately 4000 people of Sare, Souraïde, Ainhoa,
Itxassou and of other villages were deported. After the fall of Robespierre,
the survivors could regain their village. Xareta, which
means "wooded
valley", was given by J.-M. of
Barandiaran, eminent ethnologist who studied the area in the Forties.
Today, Xareta shelters a historical and cultural inheritance
exceptional.
Thus it's naturally that the communes of Sare, Urdazubi-Urdax and Zugarramurdi
decide at the beginning of the Nineties to develop in a common way their
tourist actions with in particular the restoration of the " way of the pottok ",
historical path connecting the three villages by the prehistoric caves, and the
promotion of their territory in the same stand in the international fair of
Bilbao.
The
first consequences were the installation of a commission charged to write an
action plan and to follow the projects, and the creation of a bottom
managed by common bank account. The first results of work
undertaken were the modernization of the lighting of the Sare's cave, the
restoration of the witche's house in Zugarramurdi and the funerary
steles in Ainhoa..
These
results more than encouraging in the cultural and tourist fields led the elected
members of the territory to reflect on a widening of their collaboration which
passes by the institutional structure's constitution. It is in December 2003
that Specific Convention Basque Country, after consultation of all the actors,
presented its work by proposing for Xareta a legal framework with the
installation of association law 1901 of French right whose flexibility allows
at the same time to engage the personnel, to integrate institutions of
various countries and to manage a common banking account. It also recommended
various scenarios of financings for the
recruiting of an organizer, the
constitution of an action plan and a proposal for a working procedure.