Autumn is, without a doubt, the season that best defines the essence of Basque cider culture. Between September and November, cider houses live their most intense and authentic moment: apple season and the production of cider from the new harvest. It is the instant when the natural cycle of the product becomes visible and tangible, and when each cider house transforms into a stage where tradition, work and nature go hand in hand.
Our activities immerse you in Basque culture in an active and participatory way. You will learn the secrets of natural cider directly from those who produce it, compete in the rural sports that have united our towns for centuries, row to the rhythm of a trainera in the waters of the Cantabrian Sea or feel the adrenaline of the fastest ball game in the world. Each experience is designed to create shared memories, laugh as a group and discover a way of understanding life rooted in this corner of the Atlantic.
All our activities adapt to the size and profile of your group, with monitors and guides who ensure the day flows naturally. Just choose the experience and let yourself go.
GUIDED TOUR AND LUNCH AT A CIDER WINERY
Guided tours offer a firsthand look at the cider-making process, allowing you to visit the apple orchards, tour the facilities, see the cellars with their traditional cider barrels (kupelas), and understand the work behind each bottle. It's an essential experience to immerse yourself in cider culture at its peak.
During the tour, you'll taste freshly squeezed apple juice, bursting with the flavor, aroma, and freshness of the freshly picked fruit. Each winery will also surprise you with other products they make: natural cider, organic ciders, sparkling ciders, apple compotes, and apple preserves.
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CIDER-MAKING WORKSHOP
Apple season, which runs from September to November, is undoubtedly the best time of year to visit a cider winery. During these months, the apple trees laden with fruit and the intense aroma of cider wafting through the cellars transform each visit into a complete, sensory experience deeply connected to the land.
The workshop is a highly hands-on and participatory experience, in which visitors take part in the entire apple juice-making process, from start to finish. It begins with picking the apples directly from the orchard, where the fruit can be selected at its peak ripeness. Next, the apples are crushed using the traditional method, placed in the press, and finally, the freshly squeezed juice is tasted in its purest form, bursting with all the flavor, aroma, and freshness of the freshly picked fruit. This educational and sensory activity allows you to understand firsthand how apples are transformed into juice, step by step.
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BASQUE RURAL SPORTS GYMKHANA
This is an activity that can be carried out wherever you want: outside your company, in the apple orchard of a cider house, inside a building... You choose the place, and we will take the adventure wherever you want.
Basque rural sports (or herri kirolak) are traditional sports from the Basque Country that come from daily work activities in rural areas. They are usually sports of strength, endurance and skill. Today, these sports are part of Basque culture.
The experience consists of a championship of these rural team sports. The instructors will divide the groups and after an explanation of the origin of each of the sports, the action begins!
Stone lifting, txapela throwing, log saw cutting, lokotxak, bowling, sack race...And many more! It will be a competition full of adrenaline, the last test where the entire team participates in full, it will be the sokatira, whoever wins this final test will win the championship and win a txapela. Come and live a day full of sports and laughter!
ROWING CHAMPIONSHIP
If you want to feel like a rower for a day, come to the Olympic rowing club! The activity will begin inside the Rowing Club where we will learn about the history of arraun and how it is practiced by a professional rower.
After a short introduction, the patrón will divide us into several teams. Each group will enter the Oria River in a trawler along with a professional arraunlari who will teach you some basic notions to be able to row and beat the competing trawlers. And after the relevant explanations, the action begins!
First you will row to get some practice. When you are ready, the trawlers will be placed in the same position and the patron will give the signal. The entire team will have to row in unison and follow the rhythm set by the professional. It will be a competition with ziaboga included, if you are the first to return to the starting point, you win the race! Do you dare?
BASQUE PELOTA EXPERIENCE
Have you ever heard of the ancient sport of Basque pelota? One of the most recognized forms of Basque pelota is the remonte. A sport registered in the Guinness World Record as the fastest sport in the world. Do you dare?
We will start the day visiting the largest fronton in our region. A professional remontista will show us the different areas of the fronton and we will also visit the workshop where the baskets necessary for remonte are made.
After this visit to the fronton, we will learn to play remonte from the hand of a professional, who will tell us all the secrets and tricks of this sport. We will play different games to get practice, and then the action will begin. The instructor will divide the group into different teams and a remonte tournament will be played. The winning team will be the one that has managed to defeat all the opposing teams. What are you waiting for to challenge your friends and coworkers?
There is also the option of watching a professional remonte match from the stands after practicing some, and placing bets on the professionals. Whoever guesses the winner will win a souvenir prize.
