Urgulleko Historiaren Etxea
Hilltop castle museum retelling a siege that burned a city, with models, uniforms and photographs of its ruin.
This guide to the House of History inside the Castle of La Mota in San Sebastian reconstructs the night of August 31, 1813, when two thousand French troops under governor Louis Emmanuel Rey fell back to this hilltop as British and Portuguese forces broke through the town walls below. You'll hear how the attacking soldiers, drunk on captured wine and furious over their dead, set fire to house after house until only one street kept its roof. Inside, models, uniforms and photographs rebuild the walled city that vanished that night, watched over by a giant Sacred Heart statue raised on the summit in 1950.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.