Monte Igueldo san Sebastián

This guide to Monte Igueldo in San Sebastian begins on the twenty-fifth of August, 1912, when Queen Maria Cristina rode a wooden carriage up this hillside to open a gambling house, inaugurating the same funicular that still climbs today. You'll hear how the casino's fortunes turned, first into a ballroom and then into something else, leaving the mountain to be reinvented as an amusement park built around an eighteenth-century tower that predates it all. Feel the gentle sway of the funicular cars passing each other halfway up, the same ride high society took a century ago.