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
Santa Clara Island
A small yet charming urban island. Discover all its secrets!
- 2022 Aug 06
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
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
Welcome to Egia: the SoHo of San Sebastian?
Last year I moved to Egia and I couldn’t like more my new neighbourhood! So I’d like to invite you to discover it too. Egia is frequently compared to Greenwhich Village or Soho (on a "Donostia style" version and smaller scale, of course!) ;), for being home to many local artists and cultural groups. The neighbourhood is full of personality, euskaldun (basque language is frequently spoken) and it’s always been well-known for its musical, artistic and cultural scene.
- 2020 Feb 28
- DonosTeaser
Antigua, the magic neighborhood!
Those of us from the Antigua neighborhood call ourselves “antiguotarras” before “donostiarras”, since this is the city’s oldest and most magical neighborhood that has its own character along with everything else you could imagine!
- 2020 Feb 28
GROS, the trendy neighborhood!
Hi, guys! Today I'm going to talk about Gros, a neighborhood that has recently become quite trendy and is constantly growing. With all these ingredients, it’s impossible not to like it!
- 2020 Feb 28
Amara, a quiet neighborhood just steps from the city center!
Looking for an affordable place to stay just steps from the city center in a quiet area off the beaten tourist path? Come to my neighborhood, Amara!
- 2020 Feb 28
- Poxpolina
Zaitugu or the untranslatable
I’ve just met Sheila at the campus party. I spoke to her in Basque, thinking that she was around these parts, because by the look of her she could have come from Azpeitia, Vitoria-Gasteiz or the El Antiguo district. But as it happens she doesn’t. She’s Sheila, the English friend of my flatmate who’s...
- 2020 Feb 27
