Koruko Andre Mariaren basilika

This guide to the Koruko Andre Mariaren basilika in San Sebastián starts at the doorway, where a statue of Saint Sebastian, the arrow-pierced Roman soldier the city takes its name from, watches over an entrance that has nothing to do with what waits inside. You'll hear the local tradition behind the small wooden Virgen del Coro on the high altar, said to have been pulled from the Cantabrian Sea by fishermen, and the three decades it took to raise this building between 1743 and 1774. The guide also touches on the basilica's elevation to minor basilica status in 1973. Listen for the story of the September procession that still empties the old town every year.