Cristina Enea parkea

This guide to Cristina Enea parkea in San Sebastián centers on Cristina Brunetti y Gayoso de los Cobos, Duchess of Mandas, one of only three women among twenty-six founders of the Royal Spanish Society of Natural History, and her diplomat husband Fermín de Lasala, who together turned this bend of the river Urumea into an English-style garden with a stone palace at its heart. You'll hear about the French landscapers and rare imported trees they filled it with, and about the strict conditions Fermín attached when he had no heir left to inherit the estate. The gardens opened to the public in 1926. Look for the broad ginkgo tree whose fruit turns famously foul-smelling each autumn.