Ondarreta Beach

This guide to Ondarreta Beach in San Sebastián follows sculptor Eduardo Chillida, who spent childhood afternoons watching the Atlantic slam into the rocks at its far end and later returned to bolt his own steel sculpture into that same stone. You'll hear about the work he called Comb of the Wind, the violent spot he chose for it, and the twenty-five years and twenty-three studies behind its final form. The guide also traces how a queen's choice of this coastline as her summer address shaped the promenade and villas around you. Stand at the railing above the rocks on a rough day for the full effect.