31 de Agosto Kalea

This guide to 31 de Agosto Kalea in San Sebastian returns to August 1813, when British and Portuguese troops, having finally broken the siege walls, turned on the town itself and burned nearly every street to ash within two days. It follows this one street, then called Trinity Street, as the sole survivor connecting the old town to what came after, running between two churches that also somehow endured. You'll hear the competing explanations locals give for why it alone was spared. Walk it in the evening, when the pintxo bars along it are busiest.