Basque pelota facts for kids
Pelota in Spanish, pilota in Basque and Catalan, or pelote in French (from Latin pila) is a name for several court sports played with a ball using one's hand, a racket, or a wooden bat (pala), against a wall (frontón in Spanish, frontoi in Basque, frontó in Catalan) or, more traditionally, with two teams face to face separated by a line on the ground or a net. Their roots can be traced to the Greek and other ancient cultures, but in Europe they all come from real tennis (see Jeu de paume). Today, Basque Pelota is widely played in several countries: in Spain and France, specially in the Basque Country and its neighbour areas.
Other modalities
- Gaelic handball
- Valencian pilota
- Valencian frontó
Images for kids
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Basque Pelota's game under the Hondarribia's City walls, by Gustave Colin in 1863.
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Frontoi in Ainhoa (Labourd)
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Playing paleta at the trinquet of Elizondo (Navarre)
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Basque pelota fronton diagram. Clockwise from top left: side wall; front wall; perspective view; ground.
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Paleta Gomme-Goma with a wooden racket
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Paleta
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Argentine Multi-layered Wooden Paleta Goma.
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Long xistera.
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Short xistera.
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Xare
See also
In Spanish: Pelota vasca para niños
