Miramar Jauregia

This guide to Miramar Jauregia in San Sebastián starts underground, with a train tunnel built in the 1890s so trams would never spoil grieving Queen Maria Cristina's sea view from the English-style manor she raised here in 1893. You'll hear how her son, Alfonso the Thirteenth, grew up sports-obsessed on these grounds and helped launch Spain into the modern athletic age from this hillside by 1906. The guide traces the palace's fashionable decades as Spain's most sought-after summer address. Walk the gardens past Eduardo Chillida's sculpture The Embrace as you listen.