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Origins<\/a><\/p>\n

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Lumo isn’t the name of another town, it’s part of the same municipality: Gernika- Lumo. Odd as it may seem, in the Middle Ages, Gernika was no more than a district in the elizate or parish of Lumo, or to be more precise, the port of Lumo. <\/strong><\/p> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n \n

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The Tree of Gernika<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Casa de Juntas (Assembly House) and the Tree of Gernika: living symbols of the history of the Basque People. <\/b><\/p> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n \n

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The bombing of Gernika<\/a><\/p>\n

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The town was bombed on the 26th of April 1937<\/b><\/p> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n \n

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Picasso<\/a><\/p>\n

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The terrible attack on Gernika inspired the Malaga-born painter to create one of his most famous works.<\/b><\/p> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n \n

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First and Last Monday of October in Gernika<\/a><\/p>\n

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Dating back more than 650 years - to when it was first established as a town in fact - Gernika boasts one of the few remaining traditional markets in the Basque Country.<\/b><\/p> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":6313,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/page-planifica-viaje.php","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-6350","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gernikainfo.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gernikainfo.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gernikainfo.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gernikainfo.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gernikainfo.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6350"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gernikainfo.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7021,"href":"https:\/\/gernikainfo.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6350\/revisions\/7021"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gernikainfo.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gernikainfo.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}