Pasaia

Pasaia is a town and municipality positioned inside the province of Gipuzkoa within the Basque Autonomous Community of northern Spain. It is a fishing community, business port and the birthplace of the fighting admiral Blas de Lezo. Pasaia lies about 5 kilometres east of Donostia's centre, mendacity at the foot of Mount Ulia and the Jaizkibel massif. The municipality numbers 16,056 population, clustering across the Bay of Pasaia in four nuclei, specifically Pasai San Pedro, Pasai San Juan, Antxo and Trintxerpe, with every element showing distinctive features.

Pasaia is referred to in documentary information for the first time in 1203 as Oiarso. The name of the village changed into later changed to "Pasage", this means that 'port' in Gascon. The Gascons had come to inhabit the place facet by means of facet with the Basque humans at the beginning of the 13th century. The present day name is first attested in the 15th century, whilst it changed into known as the above "Pasage".