Marisol Murua · CC BY-SA 3.0Provincial capital
San Sebastián or Donostia, officially known by the bilingual name Donostia / San Sebastián (Basque:, Spanish), is a city and municipality located in the Basque Autonomous Community in Spain. It lies on the coast of the Bay of Biscay, 20 km (12 miles) from the Spain–France border. The capital city of the province of Gipuzkoa, it has a population of 188,487 as of 2024, with its metropolitan area being 436,500 in 2010. Locals call themselves donostiarra (singular) in Basque, also using this term when speaking in Spanish. It is also a part of Basque Eurocity Bayonne-San Sebastián.
The economic activities in the city are dominated by the service sector, with an emphasis on commerce and tourism, as San Sebastián has long been well-known as a tourist destination. Despite the city's relatively small size, events such as the San Sebastián International Film Festival and the San Sebastian Jazz Festival have given it an international dimension. San Sebastián, along with Wrocław, Poland, was the European Capital of Culture in 2016.
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208 places to stay in the village's official tourism register.
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208 places to stay
208 places to stay
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16 beds2.8 km from the centre
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Source: Gobierno Vasco · Alojamientos turísticos de Euskadi (Open Data Euskadi); OpenStreetMap (teléfonos y webs que el registro no publica) (ODbL); Overture Maps Foundation (teléfonos y webs que el registro no publica) (CDLA-Permissive-2.0). Open data retrieved in October 2026; recent openings and closures may not appear yet.
