Every five years, Jaialdi erupts in Southern Idaho—a jubilant celebration of Boise’s Basque culture, held on the feast day of San Ignatius de Loyola. It’s food, dance, sports, and a chance to marvel over the fact that one of the biggest parties dedicated to a culture based on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe is held in, well, Idaho. The 2020 version was postponed a few times for Covid reasons before it was scrapped altogether, meaning the 2025 event is the first in a decade.
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