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That’s why we not only enjoy telling you how much we love San Sebastian on our tours, but we also want to put it in writing. That’s why we have created this blog, where we tell you what we don’t have time to tell you on the tours. If you love San Sebastian as much as we do, or if you are planning a visit to our city, this is your space.
The Basque Country is marked with ruins of ancient times. From castles to towers, going through mines, megalithic monuments or bridges that avoid rivers or abyss. Nowadays we know that the ones building these elements were neolithic cultures, the romans, the muslims and medieval christians. But for generations our ancestors attributed them to the “Gentiles” […]
If there is something that San Sebastian stands out for it’s its French style architecture from the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th. What is known as romantic architecture, because this style mixes elements from historicist architecture and elements from modernist architecture. All the city centre and part of the adjacent […]
I love going to the movies. Get to a huge dark room, sitting in the seat and enjoy for two hours of a film (or suffer it it is a bad one and then talk ill of it while having a few beers) is one of the things that I like the most in the […]
In the Basque Country, most of our sports have evolved from the works on the fields. This is quite known outside of Euskadi. Many of our visitors have heard already about our rock lifters (harrijasotzaile) or woodchoppers (aizkolaris) as the charismatic Iñaki Perurena or Joxe Mari Olasagasti. But there are many other modalities, as harvesting […]
In San Sebastian’s harbor there is a beautiful neoclasic monument that has a bronze bust of a man with a normal appearance, dressed with the traditional clothes of the arrantzales (fishermen) from Gipuzkoa, is the Aita Mari. On its base there is a little inscription in basque that says: ¡MARI! YOU GAVE YOUR LIFE TRYING […]
All the cities in the world have their day of holiday and Donosti could not be less. And obviously, in a city called San Sebastian, the main holiday coincides with the day of Saint Sebastian, our patron saint. This very special day is the 20th of January, it’s a holiday that lasts only 24 hours, […]
Cinema is invented in 1895 thanks to the Lumière brothers. Just 20 years after that first cinematographic projection, in San Sebastian the Bellas Artes Theater is built, one of the first buildings in the Basque Country built exclusively as a cinema theater. It’s the oldest cinema theater in Spain that still maintains its original design. […]
When we travel, we always have doubts about some topics or even worse… we need to find certain places for some mishap on the trip, that’s why Go Local is here to give you a hand in your visit to Donosti! About public transportation: How to pay for public transportation in San Sebastian? The local […]
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 […]
Segura is a villa founded by Alfonso X the Wise in 1256 to protect San Adrian’s Royal Road, an enclave that is still filled with the medieval vibe and its origin influenced by Castille, Gipuzkoa and the rest of Europe. And, despite the passing of time, this village has been able to keep its medieval […]
One of the most renowned characters in the basque mythology and popular culture is San Martin Txiki or San Martiniko, a very smart rascal that acts as a civilizing hero in the Basque Country (and also as the only saint with an important role in the basque legends). This sort of Prometheus gave the basque […]
If you walk alongside the Boulevard on a not very busy day, maybe you will see a line of red paving stones on the floor that goes until some flowers that end up at a bandstand. What you are seeing over there is the original outline of the city walls, which started to be demolished […]