Heritage towns in Gipuzkoa (Guipúzcoa)
4 towns in this province.
A fortified medieval town on the Bidasoa river in Gipuzkoa, its intact walls, Gothic-baroque church, and Carlos V castle standing where Castile and France have faced each other across the water for eight centuries.
A Basque fishing town on the Gipuzkoa coast, birthplace of the first man to circumnavigate the globe and home to a Gothic church that doubles as a tunnel to the harbour below.
A Basque fishing town on the Coastal Camino de Santiago where pilgrims have crossed the Oria river by boat since medieval times, and whose rowing club holds more victories in the great San Sebastián regatta than any other.
A Basque coastal town on the Camino del Norte, where stone-coated manor houses, a Gothic military tower, and a still-active archaeological site spanning the Iron Age to the Middle Ages line its old streets above the Bay of Biscay.