Old Town

This guide to the Old Town in San Sebastian returns to the summer of 1813, when British and Portuguese troops besieging Napoleon's garrison broke through the walls on the thirty-first of August after a brutal two-hour assault. You'll hear what the soldiers found waiting in the cellars below the streets, and how a warning muttered to a terrified neighbor the night before turned out exactly right. The guide follows what happened over the days after, and the Duke of Wellington's own denial of it. Walk the straight, orderly grid of stone streets laid out by survivors starting again from nothing.