Elgoibar is mainly an industrial town, whose most important activity is the manufacture of machine-tool. Some artisanal arms and shotgun industries still remain as a way of carrying on the traditional arms production of the area.

In addition to the Machine Tool Museum, the village has two other very curious museums: MUFOMI, the museum of fossils and minerals, and the Bone Museum, which contains replicas of prehistoric objects.

Elgoibar is also surrounded by beautiful mountains which provide the backdrop for some interesting outings. Between Karakate and Irukurutzeta, for example, there is a beautiful ridge formation which anthropologist Don José Miguel de Barandiaran called “The Dolmen Trail”. This route is home to important archaeological sites, highlighting numerous dolmens and burial mounds.

A key point in the life of the town is the splendid Baroque complex formed by the Town Hall and the Church of San Bartolomé and which is completed with a building of old porticoed houses and the pediment that closes the space towards the river.

The portico of the cemetery of Olaso is of great beauty and has historical and artistic importance, and is the only remains of the primitive Church of San Bartolomé.