Basque Place Cities TaleI. On the Dawn of TimeOnce the ice ages receded and the 1st human teams roamed the humid valleys on the Cantabrian Sea, the lands we now call Euskal Herria were already a refuge. In the caves of Santimamiñe, Ekain, Isturitz, and Aitzbitarte, nameless palms left bison, horses, and symbols that also manage to resonate today.T