Abstract
This paper focuses on the Book Fair held every December in Durango in the Autonomous Community of Euskadi, Spain, and aims to clarify the revitalization process promoted by the festival for The Basque speakers’ community and for their region, the Basque Country, describing features of ethnic resources and ethnic capitals in the festival, and the rela-tion with them and the memory engraved in the region. The Book Fair of Durango (Durangoko Azoka) was celebrated for the first time in 1965 and, nowadays, is evaluated as the most important cultural festival in the Basque Country. Almost all of visitors are the Basque speakers who live in the Basque Country, and they visit the book fair almost every year as frequently as pilgrimage. The key organizer is the Association of Gerediaga, which plays a role of social entrepreneurship connecting the book fair with the visitors. The denomination of the Association “Gerediaga” dates back to the Medieval Age when the Durangaldea maintained the political autonomy and its political center was “Gerediaga.” The Association takes the symbolic place name and plays key role for the Basque speaker’s community. A collective memory of the Basque people which has been engraved in Durango links between them and the revitalization of the Basque Country as an imag-ined nation of the Basque people.
