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

The TOP Pintxos in the Centre

Food and drink

Donostia city centre is full of little shops. Broad avenues taking us back to the Belle Époque, a delightful stroll to windowshop and, of course, have a few pintxos.

Best Pintxos in Egia

Food and drink

Recipes with a taste of San Sebastian

Food and drink
Las olas en Donostia

Wave-spotting in San Sebastián

Donosti Feeling

Start of the spring tides

Pintxos_fuego negro

"Going for pintxos"

Food and drink

Tips to get the most out of San Sebastian´s pintxos

San Sebastian offers something for everyone’s taste

Sport city

Did you know..? 7 fun facts about San Sebastian

Donosti Feeling

La Perla

Donosti Feeling

A spa with views across the bay… Can you imagine a better plan?

Barandilla de la Concha

Donosti Feeling

Discover the new and charming hotels in San Sebastian

Donosti Feeling

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.

Donostia / San Sebastian inspires us

Donosti Feeling
Isla Santa Clara

Santa Clara Island

Donosti Feeling

A small yet charming urban island. Discover all its secrets!

Fireworks

Culture

Enjoy like a donostiarra: fireworks and ice cream

Sanfermines

Day trips
Every year from the 6 to the 14 July, the Fiestas de San Fermín festival is held in the city of Pamplona (Iruñea in Euskera) which is one hour from Donostia. This festival is known as ‘sanfermines’ in Spanish and ‘sanferminak’ in Euskara. With concerts, parades, night parties and giant figures, it’s an incredible atmosphere!

San Sebastián LGTBI, always ahead of its time

Donosti Feeling

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.

Less than two hours from San Sebastian

Day trips

Routes and itineraries less than two hours from San Sebastian.

This year the Korrika… finishes in San Sebastian!

Basque

The Korrika is coming, the huge race around the Basque Country!

Basque Challenge 2: Want to test yourself and show off how much Basque you know?

Basque

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? 

A marvellous getaway to Biarritz by direct bus

Day trips

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.

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