Basque pelota - Wikipedia Basque pelota (Basque: pilota, Spanish: pelota vasca, French: pelote basque) is the name for a variety of court sports played with a ball using one's hand, a racket, a wooden bat or a basket, against a wall (frontis or fronton) or, more traditionally, with two teams face to face separated by a line on the ground or a net The roots of this
Basque Pelota: The Pulsating Heartbeat of the Basque Country Enter Basque Ball Game (or ‘pelota’ as locals call it) — a thrilling, high-speed game that claims the title of being the world’s fastest sport Predominantly played in the Basque Country straddling Spain and France, it also enjoys popularity in various Latin American nations
Pelota | Basque Country, Spain, Racquetball, Handball . . . In Spain and elsewhere, pelota is a professional game on which spectators wager Most popular is the difficult and fast variation of remonte, a 35-point game that requires two players on each side and is played with a special chistera, a curved glove with a chestnut or ash frame
Pelota: A Sport with Basque Roots — Google Arts Culture Basque pelota is a sport closely linked to the Basque Country There is no Basque village that does not have a pediment (one or two-walled court), a trinquet (four-walled court), or the mur à
Pelota – a Basque national sport - fromplacetoplace. travel The Basque national sport of pelota (also known as pelota vasca) is one of the most traditional and impressive sports in Spain Jai Alai or Cesta-Punta is a variant of the Basque pelota game We watched jai alai games and were thrilled by the sport
Basque Fact of the Week: Pelota Vasca | Bubers Basque Page Pelota is typically played in a fronton, usually either with one (primarily in Iparralde) or two walls However, more formal games are played in one of three types of courts A trinquet essentially has four walls, though the right wall is made of glass and the left wall has a dugout