Although nowadays the brutalist Atotxa Tower is the tallest building in San Sebastian, until 1973 that honour belonged to the Good Shepherd Cathedral. This is one of the buildings that shows best the quick expansion that the city experienced at the end of the XIX century. El Buen Pastor Cathedral (which translates to The Good […]
The Gipuzkoan coast was for centuries home to hundreds, thousands of corsairs. These pirates were the terror of sailors that had the misfortune to become their prey. Today we propose you a plan inspired in these sea dogs, but don’t worry, we haven’t thought of making you travel by boat to make you fight with […]
Did you know that the oldest university, and for a long time the only university, in the Basque Country is in Gipuzkoa? That’s right, The University of Oñate was founded in the year 1540 as the University of Oñate thanks to a papal bull by Paul III and worked until 1901. Back in the day […]
We’ve said this plenty of times, and we will never get tired of repeating it, we have a lot of rain in San Sebastian. It rains often. It rains a lot. Donostia is the city in spain with more rain days per year. And that requires a certain discipline when choosing your clothes to avoid […]
Winter is here and with it the bad weather. We the donostiarras are used to live with it, it’s part or our day to day, however, we understand that people passing through don’t necessarily share our resistance. Here you have a series of micro plans for all the irreductible travellers to whom few drops of […]
Every year, from the beginning of the fall onwards, San Sebastian appears in the news due to the incredible sights of colossal waves crashing against the wave breakers and walls of the city. If you are in San Sebastian during the time of the year that has strong waves, we want you to see that […]
Our tours, both on foot or by bike, usually start at our office doors. It is a big square with beautiful benches, which evoque the “trecandís” so common in catalan’s modernism, and there are a lot of businesses, from those that have been opened forever (like the historical Casa Ponsol or the famous bar El […]
One question we usually hear during the Free Tour is if it snows a lot in Donosti, if we have hard winters. It is logical considering that in summer the cloudy days are not rare when not rainy. The answer is no. The winters here are mild and snow is really rare in San Sebastián, […]
The bicycles are an essential part of Go Local. With them we daily visit the different districts of Donosti rain or shine in our Bike Tour. And of course, to do these experiences we need trusting bikes. That’s why we go with Orbea bikes. Orbea has a curious story. It started making weapons in the […]
There are few things more typical than bathing in La Concha bay, no matter the time of year. It is one of the most usual things to see in the national news people bathing in the beach… on January the 1st. And although it is important to remember that we are in the Cantabric sea, […]
It has been few weeks now that the season of storms, strong winds and abundant rain has begun in the Basque Country. A time period hated by some, loved by others (me included), when the sky turns grey, blue, black and white, when the Cantabric sea becomes rough and rises wall like waves that crash […]
Throughout the city’s shore you can find three hills, and at their feet you can find huge sculptures made by some of the most extraordinaire basque artists in the XX century. In this next post, we recommend you a trip to get to know them, while you also explore San Sebastian’s coastline, which is much […]