Txapela, Basque Country

Maialen Lujanbio wears the black txapela after winning the Basque improvised verse championship in Pamplona in December 2022. The txapela is the wide Basque beret, broader and flatter than the French one, and it is everyday wear for older men in Basque villages. It is also the prize: winners of bertsolari contests, stone-lifting and rowing regattas are crowned with one, and the Basque word for champion, txapeldun, means the one who has the txapela.