Blog: Donostia, by locals
We want to use our tourism blog to give a voice to everyone who has experienced Donostia, so that you can all share experiences from a personal perspective, showing us authentic, undiscovered and alternative places. Above all, we want you to immerse yourself in the city and enjoy San Sebastian to the maximum!
San Sebastian Tourism Blog
Donostia has some incredible sunsets!
We’ll show you some of the best so that you can make the most of them
- 2022 Nov 09
- Donostik-tak
Donostia Dog – Friendly
the love we have for our four-legged friends is plain to see on the city's streets, beaches and mountains. So, if you are thinking about coming to visit us with a canine friend, rest assured that you’ll be given a warm welcome by the dog lovers in San Sebastian.
- 2022 Nov 02
Discover the new and charming hotels in San Sebastian
In recent years Donostia has been witness to a burgeoning array of hotels so that those who visit us can enjoy San Sebastian to the full. Most of the new accommodation offered are hotels with a certain charm due to their location, style, size or functional characteristics.
- 2022 Oct 11
- DonosTeaser
Discover San Sebastian bite by bite: A pintxo in every neighborhood
There’s no better way to explore our beautiful city than with the palate; savoring and tasting something new around every corner along with everything that the city’s streets and neighborhoods have to offer.
- 2022 Oct 10
Santa Clara Island
A small yet charming urban island. Discover all its secrets!
- 2022 Aug 06
Are you coming at 58 Jazzaldia?
The Jazz Festival takes more than a half a century bringing the best jazz to our city. It has become both for national and for international people an event you can not miss. If you are one of those fans that have come to celebrate this event to San Sebastian...Here are a few ideas to make your visit a perfect one!
- 2022 Jul 18
Sanfermines
- 2022 Jul 04
San Sebastián LGTBI, always ahead of its time
The LGTBI issue has become a thermometer of a city's development and modernity, and now no one wants to be left behind. Many cities call on an institutional effort to make them tourism-friendly for the LGTBI community. In the case of San Sebastián, however, the LGTBI diversity and inclusion experience was no coincidence, nor was it sought out, but it is the natural evolutive consequence of a cosmopolitan, multicultural, open, welcoming city that has been tangible for decades.
- 2022 Jun 28
- Jokin Egaña
Pasaia Maritime Festival: You’ll be looking out to sea from 26 to 29 May
The Recouvrance, Marité, Oosterschelde, Shtandart… These are some of the twenty-plus-metre-long boats that have been invited to Pasaia and will elicit the most “Wows!” and get snapped in countless photos this year. The sea will be awash with sails, traditional boats and culture, from Thursday 26 May to Sunday 29.
- 2022 May 26
Less than two hours from San Sebastian
Routes and itineraries less than two hours from San Sebastian.
- 2022 Apr 23
This year the Korrika… finishes in San Sebastian!
The Korrika is coming, the huge race around the Basque Country!
- 2022 Mar 10
Basque Challenge 2: Want to test yourself and show off how much Basque you know?
Here’s a little bit of fun and you can also win one night in the Arbaso Hotel in Donostia / San Sebastian, as well as an additional 150 prizes!
Being bold and trying to guess Basque word meanings has a prize, are you up to the challenge?
- 2022 Mar 01
A marvellous getaway to Biarritz by direct bus
We’ve been waiting for this moment for years, so we were thrilled when we found out that a direct bus from San Sebastian to Biarritz was going to start running this summer.
- 2021 Jul 21
- Sisters and the City
“The Longest Voyage. The First Voyage Around the World” exhibition lands in San Sebastián
- 2021 Jun 24
- DonosTeaser
The estrobo, that crucial yet little-known piece of our seafaring tradition
In San Sebastián we not only look to the sea when we want to admire the incomparable La Concha bay. Long before the sea became a source of fun and beauty, way back in the 16th century, the sturdy Basque fishermen, those strapping Northern lads, would set out into the wild Atlantic to hunt for whales in a rowboat that has evolved into what we know today as the trainera.
- 2021 Mar 05
Contest: How much do you know about San Sebastian?
Take the quiz and win a night with sea views and breakfast at Hotel Londres + tickets to multiple museums!
- 2021 Feb 03
Slow fishing: Don’t just gaze at our coast, get out on the water and discover all it has to offer
Discovering all the secrets of our little slice of the Cantabrian Sea means, at sunset, sustainable fishing, sailing behind the island and waiting to watch the sunset from the sea; it makes boat trips from San Sebastián into an afternoon to remember.
- 2020 Jul 17