City venue guide

The 8 best wedding venues in San Sebastián

San Sebastián weddings split between the seafront and the hills behind it. In the city, couples book the salons of the Hotel de Londres y de Inglaterra facing La Concha, the beach terraces of La Perla, or Mirador de Ulía — the Michelin-starred restaurant on Monte Ulía that takes 175 guests with the bay below — while the 19th-century Palacio de Miramar is the landmark option, let by the council for events in its noble rooms and gardens. Outside Donostia the venues turn agricultural: Hiruzta at Hondarribia and Bodega Katxiña above Orio are working txakoli wineries with their own grills, and Hotel Iturregi at Getaria is hired exclusively, eight rooms and a vineyard. Guest numbers are the real constraint here — most of these places stop between 130 and 200.

Researched and last reviewed 2026-08-16. We have no commercial relationship with any venue listed.

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Hotel de Londres y de Inglaterra — wedding venue in San Sebastián, Basque Country

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No. I

Hotel de Londres y de Inglaterra

Historic hotelZubieta, on the La Concha promenade

The building stands on Zubieta street directly across the promenade from La Concha, so the bay is the view from inside the rooms rather than a walk away. What a couple books is one of the restored period salons above the beach, plus the hotel's own kitchen and service, and beds for the guests who need them. It suits a wedding that stays in the centre of town, where nobody has to be driven anywhere after midnight.

Period salons over the beach

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Palacio de Miramar — wedding venue in San Sebastián, Basque Country

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No. II

Palacio de Miramar

Royal palaceMiraconcha, above the bay

Commissioned by the Spanish royal family and finished in 1893, Miramar was designed by the English architect Ralph Selden Wornum and built by José Goicoa, which is why it reads as an English country house dropped above a Spanish beach. The city has owned it since 1972 and runs it as an event venue alongside the Basque university's summer courses, opening the noble floor and the lawns that drop towards the water. The gardens are screened from the coast road by the tunnel dug beneath them, so the palace keeps the bay to itself.

Royal summer palace above La Concha

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No. IIIMirador de Ulía

No. III

Mirador de Ulía

Hilltop restaurantMonte UlíaUp to 175 guests

Rubén Trincado's Michelin-starred restaurant sits on the flank of Monte Ulía with the city spread out underneath it, and a wedding here moves through three spaces: the garden for the ceremony and drinks, a covered terrace that keeps the panorama when the drizzle sets in, and the central dining room for the banquet. The ceiling is 175 guests. The house rule is one wedding at a time, so the site is never divided between two parties.

One wedding a day, garden to terrace

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No. IVLa Perla

No. IV

La Perla

Beachfront restaurantPaseo de la ConchaAbout 130 across the dining room and terraces

Built into the thalassotherapy centre that stands on the sand itself, this is the rare Donostia address where the party is on the beach rather than looking at it. The dining room seats 60 with the bay filling the windows, and three terraces — Santa Clara, Urgull and Igueldo — can be taken privately, bringing the total to around 130. Catering is priced per head, and the walk from the ceremony to the drinks is about twenty metres.

Three private terraces on La Concha

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No. VAquarium Donostia – San Sebastián

No. V

Aquarium Donostia – San Sebastián

Aquarium and museumThe old portUp to 120 seated in Sala T; larger receptions in the oceanar

Private hire covers the halls above the tanks and, once the public has gone, the oceanarium itself — 4,000 m² over three floors, including the 18-metre glass tunnel — used for evening cocktails and banquets. The bookable rooms run from Sala Nautilus, which opens straight onto the oceanarium and holds 30 to 100, to the 110 m² Sala T at 50 to 120, with the Zona Blanca terrace over the bay for drinks. This is a reception venue rather than a ceremony one, for couples who want the evening to be genuinely odd.

Dinner under the shark tunnel

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No. VIHiruzta Bodega

No. VI

Hiruzta Bodega

Txakoli wineryHondarribiaUp to 200 guests

Weddings at Hondarribia's txakoli producer are run by the Txapartegi family, who also hold a Michelin star at Alameda in the town, so the meal is the centre of the day rather than a line item. Two hundred guests spread through the dining room, terrace, bar and garden, with the asador's charcoal grill carrying most of the menu and the estate's own txakoli poured alongside. It sits half an hour east of the city, in the same border town as San Sebastián's airport — useful when half the list is flying in.

Michelin family running the grill

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No. VIIBodega Katxiña

No. VII

Bodega Katxiña

Winery and asadorOrtzaika, Orio

Twenty minutes west along the coast, the Zendoia family pairs a working txakoli cellar with a grill kitchen — Iñaki Zendoia cooks, and the fish comes off the boats at Orio. Weddings and events are a standing part of the business, held up in the vines above the town, with the house Txakoli Katxiña and its Extra Brut on the table. Couples who want the Basque part of the day to be the food, not the styling, end up here.

Working cellar with an Orio grill

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No. VIIIHotel Iturregi

No. VIII

Hotel Iturregi

Country house hotelAskizu, Getaria

An old farmhouse on the Askizu hillside, rebuilt as eight rooms — six doubles and two suites — with big windows onto the Cantabrian on one side and txakoli vines on the other, plus a pool in the grass. The hotel is let exclusively for weddings, which fixes the shape of the day: a small list, everyone sleeping where the party is, no coach at the end of it. Getaria's harbour and the beach at Zarautz are both a few minutes down the hill.

Whole hotel to yourselves, eight rooms

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Spain will not marry you on a visit: a civil ceremony needs one partner registered as resident in the municipality and a file opened at the Registro Civil months ahead, so couples flying in almost always marry legally at home and hold the San Sebastián ceremony as a symbolic one. The date then has to dodge a small city's calendar — the film festival in September and Semana Grande in mid-August fill the hotels and push rates up, and Donostia has far fewer beds than Bilbao an hour west. Weather is Atlantic rather than Mediterranean: sirimiri, the fine drizzle, can arrive in any month, so a venue selling an outdoor terrace should also have a covered one, which is why Mirador de Ulía's roofed terrace and the Aquarium's indoor halls get booked by couples who have read the forecast.

When to marry — June and September are the dependable months, warm enough for the terraces and either side of the August tourist peak, though late September competes with the film festival for hotel rooms.
What it costs — Venues here quote per guest rather than by hire fee — La Perla lists event menus at roughly €40 to €60 a head — and the restaurants and wineries price privately once date, numbers and the drinks package are fixed, so no honest all-in figure exists for the city as a whole.

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Questions

Marrying in San Sebastián: your questions.

Can a foreign couple legally get married in San Sebastián?

Not on a short visit. A Spanish civil marriage requires at least one partner to be legally resident and registered as empadronado in the municipality, and the Registro Civil file takes months, so couples who fly in for the wedding cannot simply book a registrar. The usual route is to complete the legal marriage at home — a registry-office appointment before or after the trip — and hold the San Sebastián ceremony as a symbolic one, which every venue listed here is used to running. A Catholic ceremony is a separate process, arranged through the parish and your own diocese.

What do wedding venues in San Sebastián actually cost?

Expect a price per guest rather than a room-hire fee. La Perla publishes event menus at roughly €40 to €60 a head, and the restaurants and wineries work the same way, adding drinks, open bar and any ceremony set-up on top. Because those numbers move with the date and the guest count, ask each venue for a full per-head figure including bar hours before you compare two quotes — the headline menu price is rarely the whole bill.

When should we marry here, and which dates should we avoid?

June and September give the best balance of weather and crowds. Avoid the week of the San Sebastián Film Festival in September and Semana Grande in mid-August, when hotel stock sells out and rates climb; the Jazzaldia in late July has a smaller version of the same effect. The city is compact and short on beds, so block rooms as soon as you fix the date rather than waiting for RSVPs.

How large a wedding can San Sebastián handle?

Most venues here are restaurant-scale rather than ballroom-scale. Mirador de Ulía stops at 175, Hiruzta in Hondarribia at 200, La Perla at about 130 across its dining room and beach terraces, and the Aquarium seats up to 120 in its largest hall before the party moves into the oceanarium. For a list well beyond 200 you will be looking outside the city centre, or splitting the day between a ceremony site and a separate dinner venue.

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The 8 best wedding venues in San Sebastián

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Planning a wedding in San Sebastián

When to marry — June and September are the dependable months, warm enough for the terraces and either side of the August tourist peak, though late September competes with the film festival for hotel rooms.

What it costs — Venues here quote per guest rather than by hire fee — La Perla lists event menus at roughly €40 to €60 a head — and the restaurants and wineries price privately once date, numbers and the drinks package are fixed, so no honest all-in figure exists for the city as a whole.

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