Sagardoa Route es la Agencia estratégica y turística de la Agrupación de Sidrerías del País Vasco. Somos una agencia receptiva del País Vasco y nuestro eje principal es la cultura vasca, el territorio y sus gentes. Nuestra especialidad es el turismo rural y la cultura de la sidra vasca aunque ofrecemos actividades diversas por todo nuestro territorio.
Experience the ‘Txotx’ ritual, taste natural Basque cider and take a trip back to our origins! Would you like to enjoy a cider house but you don’t know how to get to one? This tour is the solution. We will pick you up in San Sebastian so that you can learn, with our guide, the secrets of this thousand-year-old drink very closely linked to the Basque Country and its culture and gastronomy. You will visit the apple orchards, the farmhouse presses, the cider-making areas, the cellars and, naturally, you taste natural home-made cider as we Basques do: in the bottle and directly from the barrel. ¡Txoootx! is the call to taste natural cider directly from the barrels while you enjoy a traditional cider house menu. Afterwards, we will return to San Sebastian so you can carry on enjoying our land.
Live the experience of making cider according to 500 years ago traditional technique. Igartubeiti was built in the mid-16th century and is an excellent representative of the golden age of the Basque farmhouse. It has a well-preserved wooden structure and a wooden cider pressing machine inside. We will discover how they used to make Basque cider in the XVI.th century and how people used to live. After visiting the farmhouse, we will visit an actual Basque cider cellar and discover how we make Basque cider today. Finally, you will taste natural Basque cider with a traditional cider house menu.
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