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Experience San Sebastián

When to come, how to get around, what is celebrated and how the city is lived, told by the people who welcome guests in Gros.

Chef Ben cocinando junto a un alumno en su cocina de San Sebastián

23 August 2026

Cooking classes in San Sebastián: from La Bretxa market to the table with Chef Ben

There is a way of understanding the cooking of San Sebastián that does not involve booking a table: going to the market with someone…

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Puesto de pescado en el Mercado de La Bretxa, San Sebastián

23 August 2026

The markets of San Sebastián: La Bretxa and San Martín

To understand how people eat in San Sebastián you do not have to start with the restaurants. You understand it sooner in the markets,…

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Interior del Museo San Telmo en San Sebastián

23 August 2026

San Sebastián in the rain: indoor plans that work

It rains here. This is not the odd inconvenience: it is the climate. The city averages around 170 days of rainfall a year, and…

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Vista del barrio de Gros y la playa de la Zurriola, San Sebastián

23 August 2026

Where to stay in San Sebastián: an honest guide by neighbourhood

San Sebastián has fewer than 190,000 inhabitants and you can walk from one end to the other in about forty minutes. That means almost…

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Vista de la Grande Plage de Biarritz desde el faro

23 August 2026

Day trips to the French Basque Country from San Sebastián

The border is twenty minutes away by car. On the other side a different Basque Country begins: red timber framing on white walls, tidy…

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Entierro de la Sardina en San Sebastián, final del carnaval

23 August 2026

Carnival in San Sebastián: how it is lived here

Carnival in San Sebastián does not compete with the big ones in Spain, and it does not try to. What it has is something…

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Silla anfibia en la playa de La Concha, San Sebastián

23 August 2026

Accessible beaches in San Sebastián: a practical guide, beach by beach

San Sebastián has three city beaches and all three have some level of accessibility, but they are nowhere near equivalent. One of them lets…

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Ritual del txotx: llenando vasos de sidra directamente de la kupela

23 August 2026

Cider houses near San Sebastián: how the txotx season works

If you come between January and May you coincide with the txotx season, which is probably the hardest custom in the whole of Gipuzkoa…

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Barra de pintxos en un bar del barrio de Gros, San Sebastián

23 August 2026

Going out for pintxos in Gros: how to do it like a local

There is no shortage of bar lists. What almost nobody explains is how it is done: when you go out, what you order, where…

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Silla anfibia en la playa de La Concha, San Sebastián

23 August 2026

Accessible San Sebastián: a practical guide to travelling in a wheelchair

The short answer is yes: San Sebastián can be covered in a wheelchair, and rather better than most cities its size. Wide pavements with…

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