Some ideas on what souvenirs to buy in Tolosaldea
Local and artisan products
Here are some ideas for you to take home a souvenir of your visit to our region. Our recommendation: choose products that are typical of the area and handmade by its people. You’ll enjoy the flavours; you’ll learn about the culture; and you’ll look great in the clothes and accessories.
You don’t know what or where to buy? Ask us at the tourist information centre: we will provide you with all the information you need to buy what you need.
Gastronomic products, around the bean
The sack of Tolosa beans is one of the most popular products with visitors. Also its sacraments (side dishes): a jar of chilli peppers in vinegar, or chistorras of all kinds, vegetable black pudding and vacuum-packed mondejos. There are more and more products derived from these foods, and the variety is very wide. Discover them through their flavour!
Enogastronomy: txakoli wine and cider from Tolosaldea
As well as having several wineries and cider makers that produce both txakoli wine and cider, there are a multitude of shops where you can find these typical Basque products.
Desserts: typical sweets, cheeses and dairy products
Tiles and Cigarettes from Tolosa are the most typical ones, as well as Gorrotxas –formerly called xaxus–. Rafa Gorrotxategi also makes handmade chocolates and nougats mixing ingredients that you wouldn’t even imagine.
There is also a wide variety of dairy products: fresh cheeses, sheep’s, goat’s and cow’s milk cheeses, pastas, yoghurts, creams, ice creams…
Ask us
You don’t know what or where to buy? Ask us at the tourist information centre: we will provide you with all the information you need to buy what you need.
Pelota and Basque rural sports
Basque rural sports are one of its hallmarks, with Basque pelota and stone-lifting as its greatest examples. You can take away as souvenirs stones weighing 300 kilos (not in weight, but in miniature), balls to play on the fronton or pelotaris’ T-shirts.
Basque culture and other artistic expressions
The Basque Country maintains its ancestral traditions, hence its cultural wealth. Discover the Basque language through countless books; also through its music and its peculiar musical instruments; the beauty of the Giants and Big-heads of Tolosa and children’s toys; works of art and jewellery by local artists, and even puppets from a unique centre in Europe, the TOPIC.
Traditional costumes and fashion
In Tolosa there is a sustainable clothing brand, very successful among the local youth, which bases its designs on the streets of the town. Discover also the traditional costumes: from the colourful carnival chilabas to the Basque costumes, which are usually worn at Christmas, special fairs or other festivities such as Santa Águeda. There are all kinds of them!
More gifts at the Tourist Information Centre
You also have merchandising objects that you can find in many other places: mugs, umbrellas, magnets, postcards… We try to make these gifts more artistic.
Plan your visit
Where to eat
Restaurants in Tolosaldea
Where to stay
Accommodations in Tolosaldea