Optional Tours

Registration will be open on June 1st, 2014

Online Registration

VAT included.

General conditions
Please buy your tickets in advance as on-site availability cannot be guaranteed.
Tours may be cancelled or subject to modification without prior notice, if the minimum number of participants (20 persons) is not met. In case of cancellation participants will be reimbursed.
Full day tours include lunch.
Tours depart from and return to the venue, Kursaal.
Tour guides speak English.
Cancellations must be notified to the Secretariat in writing. Full reimbursement before 1st August 2014. From 1st August on, no reimbursement will be made.

San Sebastian Walking Tour

This tour is included in the accompanying persons’ fee.
Discover why aristocrats and royal families chose ‘Donostia’ (San Sebastian) as their summer resort at the end of the XIXth Century. Get a fresh local visit to know about the secrets of the city. Get into a private Gastronomic Club, where locals meet friends around gastronomic lunches or dinners, visit the Central Market and enjoy a ham and cheese degustation. Taste a ‘pintxo’ with a local wine in one of the most popular local bars of the Old Town. Get to know lots of anecdotes to learn all the clues of our historical and lovely city.

Bilbao & Guggenheim Museum

Feel the big transformation of one of the most important industrial cities in Europe into one of the biggest attractions of Spain. The visit are made by expert local guides and includes a panoramic view of the city, a visit of the Guggenheim Museum with an official guide, the visit of the old town with a walk along the river to discover the “New” and the “Old” Bilbao and lunch in a traditional restaurant in the Casco Viejo (old quarter). Also a visit to the World Heritage Hanging Bridge of Portugalete is part of the programme.

French Basque Country

Enjoy with us a lovely tour discovering the French Basque Country, three counties in the south of France with strong historical and cultural links with Euskadi, the Spanish Basque Country. Discover the elegant town of Biarritz, holiday destination for the European aristocracy since the XIXth century with its impressive Hotel du Palais, the Casino, its prestigious boutiques and historical cafes and restaurants overlooking the bay and the lighthouse. Saint Jean de Luz, a very picturesque fishing town with the famous Gambetta Street, it’s pretty and historical Church of San Jean Baptiste, a visit to the Central Market, if market day, is a nice way to understand the local gastronomy. A walk along the lovely Bay of Sokoa admiring the amazing scenery is a good way of saying goodbye to this charming town before to leave along the impressive “Corniche” over the cliffs direction San Sebastian.

 

 

 

Getaria & Txakoli

Let us guide you along our stunning coast on our way to Getaria where you will have fantastic views of all the coastline and the mountains. Pretty contrast between the Green and the Blue, the Mountains and the Cantabrian Sea. Once we get there, we will take you to the Balenciaga Museum where you will enjoy a visit of this stunning Fashion Museum. After this, we will take you to a Txakoli winery where you will enjoy a private visit and degustation of Txakoli (local white wine created with grapes growing in front of the sea) paired with some local products. After this visit you will enjoy a fantastic lunch based on fresh fish barbecued by the harbour accompanied by a bottle of Txakoli. To complete this nice experience we will guide you through the little streets of this cute fishing village before to continue the tour along the coast to Zumaia and finally return back to San Sebastian.