Saint Vincent's Church
Late Gothic stone church from the fifteen hundreds, its ribbed vaults among the few structures to survive a devastating citywide fire.
This guide to Saint Vincent's Church in San Sebastian starts on the night of August 31, 1813, when British and Portuguese troops stormed the city and the fires that followed turned almost the entire old town to ash. It follows this thick-walled Gothic church, standing since the 1500s, as the one building that held through the night, and the wounded who were carried inside it. You'll hear about the ribbed stone vaulting overhead, the 1586 gilded altarpiece carved with scenes of the Passion, and the towers added in 1856. Look up at the vaulting as you enter to see the masonry that outlasted the fire around it.
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