Magazine
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.
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 […]
Gipuzkoa is an historical territory with a shoreline filled with towns that catch the visitor’s eye, but, as we’ve said already in the past, the valleys on the inside of the region are also rich in history and culture. Today, we suggest you an ideal plan to discover some of the inland areas of our […]
In the Basque Country we have a history that is very tied up with iron. From the iron workers from the inside of the region to the gunmakers from Eibar… to the trains, which connected villages that were historically isolated like the boats in the river back in the day did. In 150 years this […]
Ah, for me, to think in Etxeberria evoques some of my fondest memories, shared with friends and family with some of he best beers I’ve tasted in my whole life. We are talking about a bar with incredible charisma, as the one of Juanjo, its captain, a pioneer when talking about expanding the beer related […]
As a “donostiarra” born, raised and grown old as a Gran Reserva de Rioja Alavesa wine in the Old Quarter of San Sebastian I have many and very varied opinions about the bars in my neighborhood. I´ve seen bars that have been open forever disappear like tears in the rain, or even worse, transform into […]
When you come to San Sebastian for a few days, the normal thing is that you go to eat pintxos, and the normal thing when you go to eat pintxos in Donosti is to see people drinking beer. And you’ll see that there’s people drinking beer from a big full cider glass and other people […]
Sometimes, it is hard to choose among the huge variety of bars and restaurants that Donosti enjoys. But, if you ask me, there are some that are a safe bet for a nice meal. One of those is La Bodega Donostiarra, a veteran establishment founded in 1928 that, although it has lost the charm that […]
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 […]
In the Gipuzkoan coast, in the confluence of the rivers Urola and Narrondo we find Zumaia. This small town of 10.000 inhabitants has become famous for appearing in Game of Thrones as the Dragonstone coast that the queen Daenerys Targaryen walks on. Also because its hermitage of San Telmo appears in the film Spanish Affair. […]
For six years, we had among us a very special and dear neighbour who lived in La Concha Bay and that ended up turning into a symbol of the city: Pakito the dolphin. This peculiar cetacean appeared for the first time in 1998 and left us in 2004 after joining a herd that had ventured […]
When I was young and tiny my grandparents used to meet my parents many Sundays in the Reyes Católicos street to bar crawl and eat some pintxos. One of the bars they liked was, and still is in my case, the Casa Valles. Founded in 1942, we are in a bar that’s an institution in […]