How to experience

Donostia- Paris
San Sebastián
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 About this trourist guide...

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.

Surely you know others who will fall in love with this guide, so don’t hesita-
te to share it with them. Have a good trip and ... keep travelling real.
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Eating out

Bar Néstor Pescadería, 11 Full experience in:

-by Imanol Abad www.trourist.com

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 Egia, 16

-by 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 José Miguel Barandiarán, 8

-by Jokin Bereciartu
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 Old Part

-by Jokin Bereciartu
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 gam-
bas” 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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Drinking
with buddies

Bar Ondarra Avenida Zurriola, 16 bis Full experience in:

-by Isabel Fernández www.trourist.com

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 Monte Urgull

-by Oier Marigil
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 Easo, 37

-by 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 Larramendi, 8

-by 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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Live Music

Leize Gorria Bar Zubieta, 9 Full experience in:

-by Mikel Cortés www.trourist.com

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 Mon-
days and Thurdays, poetry on Wenesday and concerts on Fridays and Saturdays.

Le Bukowski Egia, 18
-by Marta Vega
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 Paseo Salamanca, 3

-by 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 Reina Regente, 2

-by Imanol Abad
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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Find out where

to spend your €

Rent a bike Avda. de la Zurriola, 22 Full experience in:

-by Mikel Cortés www.trourist.com

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 Zurriola beach

-by 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 San Juan, 9

-by 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 Paseo del Muelle

-by Imanol Abad
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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Special
events

Jazzaldia All around the city Full experience in:

-by Jokin Bereciartu www.trourist.com

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 All around the city

-by Imanol Abad
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).

Estropadak Paseo del Muelle and Old Part

-by 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 Zarauz (30 mins. by train from San Sebastian)

-by Imanol Abad
Decked out in traditional rural farm worker (baserritarra) wear, the people of Za-
rautz 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 exchan-
ge 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, moun-
tains, 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 someti-
me 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 pre-
cisely 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 pano-
rama. 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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