Basque pelota
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Basque pelota is the name for a variety of court sports played with a ball using one's hand, a racket, a wooden bat or a basket, against a wall or, more traditionally, with two teams face to face separated by a line on the ground or a net. The roots of this class of games can be traced to the Greek and other ancient cultures.
A game of pelota as played in Ustaritz
Basque Pelota's game under the Hondarribia's City walls, by Gustave-Henri Colin in 1863.
Frontoi in Ainhoa (Labourd)
Playing paleta at the trinquet of Elizondo (Navarre)
Fronton (court)
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A fronton is a two-walled or single-walled court used as a playing area for Basque pelota.
Typical distribution of the marks in a fronton
Open-air single walled fronton in Ascarat.