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Bookmark & shareCurled around the Bahía de La Concha rests the most Basque of Basque cities.
Famed as a ritzy resort for wealthy Spaniards who want to get away from the hordes in the south, stunning San Sebastián has been a stronghold of Basque nationalist feeling since well before Franco banned the use of Euskera, the Basque language, in the 1930s.
Fast Facts
Population
178,500
Currency
Name: Euro
Code: EUR
Symbol: €
Electrical Plugs
220V 50 Hz
Languages Spoken
Official: Spanish
Time Zones
GMT/UTC +1
Country Dialing Code
+34
Weights & Measures
Metric
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