5 Best Shopping in San Sebastian, Bilbao and the Basque Country

This is the best city-center shop for Basque-made artisan items such as patterned tablecloths and linens, goatskin jai alai balls, ceramics, and traditional dress.

Visit this milliner to buy a boina, or traditional felt hat. The Leclerq family has been hatting (and clothing) the local male population since 1838.

This bookstore is one of the city's best. There's a decent selection of English-language books as well as CDs, games, and stationery.

This posh gourmet food and wine shop also hosts Basque cooking classes and popular food tours.

Cy Schnabel, son of the American "plate painting" artist Julian Schnabel, is the curator of this buzzy new (est. 2020) gallery on Mount Igeldo that displays thought-provoking works by emerging artists, many of them local. Visits are by online booking only.