Donostia-San Sebastian Trourist Guide

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What you are going to discover in the following pages are minute treasures shared by travellers who form the Trourist.com community. Tucked away, hidden places, the kind you’d show a good friend visiting your city for the first time. Genuine experiences, inimitable in any other part of the world.

Specially lived moments tatooed forever on your heart. Without a doubt, the aim of this guide is to live San Sebastian, not as a tourist, but as a trourist.

Unquestionably, if you are planning to travel to San Sebastian this summer and are determined to avoid visiting typical tourist traps, this is your guide.

Print it and take it with you, your holidays are way too important for you not to enjoy them to the max or allow chance and happenstance to deprive you of seeing some place special.

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Experiences in San Sebastián Eating out Bar Néstor

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Pescadería, 11

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Imanol Abad

This is the kind of bar you only go if following somebody’s suggestion. The bar is small, with only a table,so you’ll probably have to eat stand on the bar. The standard menu includes tomato, small green peppers, veal chop (chuletón) and cheese. For two persons you’ll pay around 50 euros, but everything there is finger licking good.

Kino Kafe

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Egia, 16

Amaia Isasti

Kino Cafe is door to door from the Boukowsky bar in Egia. Has a tiny upstairs with a few dinner tables but if you are lucky enough to grab one of them, you will enjoy it. Nice atmosphere, music and great amazing food: salads, salty or sweet creps and cheese or chocolate fondue. Yummy!!!.

Yummy sandwiches & great views

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Jokin Bereciartu

José Miguel Barandiarán, 8

El muro is the meeting point for young people at San Sebastian. From there, you’ll see the local surfers catching waves and you’ll be able to take the perfect photo at dusk. Just across the road, you’ll find the best sandwiches in town at “Campero Bar”. I’d recommend a chicken Campero.

Best “Pintxos” in Old Part -by

Jokin Bereciartu

Old Part

Everytime I have the opportunity I love going to the old part to taste my favorite “pintxos”. Goiz Argi Bar is my starting point where I recommend “brocheta de gambas” or a “Marijuli”. After, I usually go to Bar Zeruko – don’t forget to try the pintxo called “La Hoguera” – and I end eating a foie pintxo at La Cuchara de San Telmo.

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Experiences in San Sebastián Drinking with buddies Bar Ondarra -by

Isabel Fernández

Avenida Zurriola, 16 bis

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Good place to go, with three different atmospheres. For having a drink outside the bar, in front of Kursaal Congress Center; for having a drink sittin; standing inside for a short drink and downstairs for clubbing! nice music and dk’s on weekends.

Polvorín Bar in Urgull, best landscape in town -by

Oier Marigil

Monte Urgull

A non-typical place to have a drink. Amazing view of the bay in the heart of Urgull mountain. As special as the place itself is the couple attending the bar: pleasant hippies that are worth knowing.

Bar Alboka -by

Easo, 37

Mikel Cortés

This is my favorite place to meet a friend over a beer. It isn’t a big place and neither has a spectacular decoration, but it has something special. The music is really good and photos of local artists hang on the walls. You might find groups of friends having a few beers or people enjoying the reading of a book.

Uda.Berri Bar -by

Larramendi, 8

Imanol Abad

Reyes Catolicos street is the meeting point of many local youngs who want to have some beers after an entire day working at the office or, lucky them, tanning at the beach. In my opinion, Udaberri is the hot spot of this promenade, a good place to go “people watching”. The best idea is to sit outside. There is free wifi connection.

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Experiences in San Sebastián Live Music Leize Gorria Bar -by

Zubieta, 9

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Mikel Cortés

Leize Gorria is the referent inside underground scene in San Sebastian. You’ll be able to enjoy the Jam Sesions and concerts of local musicians at this small bar located in the city center. If you love live music, don’t miss it. Jam sessions on Mondays and Thurdays, poetry on Wenesday and concerts on Fridays and Saturdays.

Le Bukowski -by

Marta Vega

Egia, 18

It’s a cool place to go for a drink while you listen to live music. This is a mythical bar for this part of Donostia, Egia. Don’t miss out!.

Be Bop Bar -by

Paseo Salamanca, 3

Jokin Bereciartu

Apart from being one of the few bars open till late in the city, Be Bop bar is well know for the jazzy and funky beats djs play. Every week live shows also take place, don’t forget to check out their agenda before going there.

Altxerri Bar -by Imanol

Abad

Reina Regente, 2

During the last 20 years, Altxerri has been the jazz hot spot in San Sebastian. So, if you like jazz music, this is your bar to go for a drink. The place is very peaceful and intimate, but when there is live music, raises the temperature!

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Experiences in San Sebastián Find out where to spend your € Rent a bike -by

Avda. de la Zurriola, 22

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Mikel Cortés

Renting a bike is a must to enjoy Donostia. It permits you to be having dinner at the “Muro” (Zurriola) and only ten minutes later be enjoying the summer night breeze at the “Peine del Viento” (Ondarreta). I’d also recommend the bike ride through the 3 beaches, if it’s at night timebetter. Bikes can be rent in a shop just across the street from the Kursaal.

Surf Lessons -by

Zurriola beach

Mikel Cortés

Surfing is a big thing in Donostia. If you’ve never tried before the feeling of catching waves, I’d recommend you to take surfing lessons at Pukas surf school, placed at the Zurriola beach. Surfing can be a good option to relax after partying hard in the Old Part of the city.

Beltza Records -by

San Juan, 9

Isabel Fernández

“since 1990 – 100% alternative music shop – death or glory & keep on the rhythm & blues style!!!”

Music, photographs, t-shirts, comics…

Quisquillas and karrakelas in the Port -by Imanol

Abad

Paseo del Muelle

The local people of SS don’t eat pumpkin seed or chips when they go for a walk.

We do eat cooked “quisquillas” (small shrimps) and “karrakelas” (winkles) bought in cones in the small fish shop located in the beggining of the Port. Please, note the exaggeration : ) Yet, it is 100% true that we live for little moments like this.

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Experiences in San Sebastián Special events Jazzaldia -by

Jokin Bereciartu

All around the city

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It takes place during the third week of July, from the 21st to the 25th. Great jazz artists from all over the world come to San Sebastian and play in hidden corners all over the city. Everyday live shows take place in the Green stage beside the sea, where the locals meet to chill out and grab a few beers.

Zinemaldia

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Imanol Abad

All around the city

The International Film Festival will celebrate its 58th edition from the 17th to the 25th of September. During this week, San Sebastian is not only full of glamour – the list of personalities making an appearance at the Festival is endless-, but has also an excellent atmosphere (many young people of different cities work in the Festival as collaborators).

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Paseo del Muelle and Old Part

Jokin Bereciartu

Ever since, the Basque Country and it’s inhabitants have been very close to the sea. This feeling can be appreciated during the Regata of Donostia which takes place during the 2nd week of Sept. The city gets packed with supportes from all the rowing teams. Once the race is finished all the people meet at the Old Part to keep celebrating this special day.

Euskal Jaiak -by

Zarauz (30 mins. by train from San Sebastian)

Imanol Abad

Decked out in traditional rural farm worker (baserritarra) wear, the people of Zarautz and neighboring villages hit the streets every September 9th to live a very special day. Unquestionably, cider is an indispensable element in the Euskal Jaia of Zarautz. It is served by the ton at Barren Plaza and Musika Plaza.

Concert at Zurriola Beach during Jazzaldia

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Tips by a local trourist

Txomin Jauregi

trourist and entrepreneur at: ddonosti.com

As a university student, I spent six incredible and unrepeatable months in Aarhaus, Denmark. Even so, I’ve always felt that if I had a magic wand and could choose a destination of my liking, I’d go back in time to those six months and transform myself into a German, Dutch, Norwegian student, well something like that anyway, and come to San Sebastian on an exchange program. SS or Donosti as locals it, is a city that surprises all those who visit it, offering a pleasant climate, bicycle paths, sand, surf, mountains, pintxos (called “tapas” elsewhere), wining and dining and best of all, a chance to perfect your flirting skills. All of this contained in one small city … who can ask for anything more?

For those of you, Erasmus or not, planning to visit San Sebastian sometime soon, I’d like to share my ideal itinerary with you: a light dinner with a lettuce-tomato-tuna salad, sardines, washed down with a refreshing bottle of cider at one of the seaport eateries. It’s imperative that you order precisely these menu items. Seaport restaurants have a justified reputation for being on the expensive side. However, if you limit yourself to the above, you’ll do alright plus you’ll have a front-row seat to an unbeatable panorama. Your best bet is to do it sometime in June or July when the days are long and the sunsets unforgettable. And if you top dinner off, sipping a cool gin tonic at one of the Plaza de la Constitución (“La Consti”) outdoor cafes, you’ll think you died and went straight to heaven.

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