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52 unusual facts about San Sebastián


1969 World Shotgun Championships

The 1969 World Shotgun Championships were separate ISSF World Shooting Championships for the trap and skeet events held in San Sebastián, Spain.

1993 World Marathon Cup

The 1993 World Marathon Cup was the 5th edition of the World Marathon Cup of athletics and were held in San Sebastián, Spain.

2001 Spanish Figure Skating Championships

The 2001 Championships took place between 15 December and 17 December 2000 in San Sebastián.

7 Boxes

Initially the film was to be released in June 2011, but was delayed when the film was accepted as a competitor in the International Film Festival of San Sebastian in Spain.

A Serbian Film

A Serbian Film was banned by a court in San Sebastián, Spain for "threatening sexual freedom" and thus could not be shown in the XXI Semana de Cine Fantástico y de Terror (21st Horror and Fantasy Film Festival).

Aktiogavialis

The deposits, part of the San Sebastián Formation along the Río Guatemala in Puerto Rico, have been an adequate supply of other crocodylian fossils.

Anna Adams Gordon

She spent a year abroad in San Sebastián with her sister, Alice Gordon Gulick, who had started a school for girls there in 1871.

Antonio de Oquendo

Antonio de Oquendo (San Sebastián, October 1577 – A Coruña, 7 June 1640) was a Spanish admiral; in 1639 he was in command of the Spanish forces at the Battle of the Downs.

Ariadna Sintes

Born in Cuba, she moved to San Sebastián in 2000 and she studied at the School of Cinema and Video in Andoain and drama in San Sebastián.

Ben Lewitt

He played over 70 games for the Saints, including the quarter-final and semi-final of Northampton Saints' 2006-07 Heineken Cup run which saw them beat Biarritz Olympique in the Quarter-Final in San Sebastian before losing the Semi-Final to previous winners London Wasps at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry.

Bertsolaritza

In 1967, a controversial national championship took place in San Sebastian, when sadly frictions over the language gap between the eastern (French) and western dialects came to a head (contender Uztapide vs Xalbador).

C. Leon Broutin

He was the son of Emmanuel Broutin (Somain 1826-1883 Donostia-San Sebastián), a fencing master, and Marie-Louise Pasquier, a dressmaker.

Achille Broutin (Metz 1860 - 1918 Donostia-San Sebastián), one of his brothers was a collector of weapons and also a fencing master.

Carlos Martínez Gorriarán

Carlos Martínez Gorriarán is a Spanish scholar, born in San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain.

Concurso Internacional de Tenis – San Sebastián

The Concurso Internacional de Tenis – San Sebastián is a tennis tournament held in San Sebastián, Spain.

Enrique José O'Donnell, Conde de La Bisbal

Enrique José O'Donnell y Anatar, conde de La Bisbal or (English: Henry O'Donnell) (San Sebastián, 1769 – Montpellier, 17 May 1834) was a Spanish general of Irish descent who fought in the Peninsular War.

Félix Martin

He worked in turn as student and teacher in Brieg and Estavayé in Switzerland; in Spain, Le Passage near San Sebastian; in Belgium, the College of Brugelette.

Forvo

Forvo.com is owned by Forvo Media SL, who are based in San Sebastián, Spain and say Forvo is the largest pronunciation guide website on the Internet.

Freddy González

He set his personal best in the men's 5,000 metres (13:22.30) on July 3, 2004 in San Sebastián.

Guillermo Klein

As of 2008, he is a member of the jazz faculty at Musikene (Centro Superior de Música del País Vasco), the Higher School of Music of the Basque Country, in San Sebastián.

Hubert Le Blon

Le Blon drowned in a crash landing into the sea on 2 April 1910 while flying in stormy weather at Ondarreta Beach, San Sebastián, Spain, where he had been performing exhibition flights since 27 March.

Within weeks of setting a new aviation speed record in Egypt he died during an exhibition flight at San Sebastián, Spain.

Iñaki Anasagasti

Iñaki studied at the Sociedad de María, San Sebastián from 1955 to 1961 and from this date to 1965 in Santiago Apóstol of Bilbao.

In the mid 1950s, his parents decided that Iñaki and his three brothers had to be educated in the Basque Country of Spain, so sent their children to return to San Sebastián to the care of their grandparents.

Itziar Okariz

Itziar Okariz (also spelled Itziar Ocáriz, born 1965) is a Basque/Spanish artist based in New York and San Sebastian.

Jaime Vladimir Cubías

Jaime Bladimir Cubías Alvarado (born May 10, 1974 in San Sebastián, El Salvador) is a retired Salvadoran football player.

Jaque

It started in San Sebastian in 1970 and has been the Spanish leading chess magazine since.

Jason Koumas

In May 2006, he pulled out of a squad get-together in San Sebastián.

José Antonio Sistiaga

José Antonio Sistiaga (4 May 1932, San Sebastián) is

Josep Melcior Prat i Colom

Josep Melcior Prat i Colom, or in Spanish Joseph Melchior de Prat, (Els Prats de Rei, Anoia, 1780 - San Sebastian, 1855) was a Catalan nationalist politician, writer, and in 1835 governor of Barcelona, and 1855 civil governor of Guipuzcoa.

Killing of Lasa and Zabala

They were secretly taken to San Sebastián, and locked up in a house property of the government always in Spanish Police's (Guardia Civil) hands.

Laurent Brochard

In 1997 he won a stage of the Tour de France and became world road champion in San Sebastián, Spain.

Liverpool Blue Coat School

The choir has toured internationally, including to Venice in 2003, Prague and Vienna in 2005, Northern Spain in 2007 and Leipzig in 2009.

Manuel Carnicer Fajó

He was taken prisoner along with his companions by the army of Francisco Franco, being sent to concentration camp located in the Plaza de Toros San Sebastian, there is a companion to the soldiers noticed the pitiful appearance of Manuel, who is sent to Center of Azpeitia, to recover, which happily succeeded.

María Cristina Bridge

Later the Orfeón Donostiarra and the Choir of the Municipal Academy of Music of San Sebastián consisted of 110 children, sang a hymn composed for the occasion by the master Santesteban.

María del Carmen González-Valerio

The family later sought safety in San Sebastian and Mari Carmen was sent to a boarding school, School of the Reverend Irish Mothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in Zalla.

Nicholas Woodcock

In 1612, Woodcock piloted the first whaleship from San Sebastian, under Juan de Erauso, to Spitsbergen.

Nursing Students Without Borders

The founding chapter of Nursing Students Without Borders has undertaken a larger initiative to provide support for the construction of a Red Cross medical clinic in San Sebastián, San Vicente, El Salvador.

Punto y Hora de Euskal Herria

In April of that year they began a new phase under a new director, Xabier Sánchez Erauskin, and based in San Sebastian.

Rudy de Mérode

At first setting himself up in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, in mid 1945 he was initially to be found in San Sebastián before reaching Madrid, where he dubbed himself "the prince de Mérode".

San Sebastián chess tournament

There were two important chess tournaments in San Sebastián, Spain, in 1911 and 1912.

San Sebastián, Toledo

San Sebastian is one of the oldest churches of Toledo, Spain.

Selvin Bonifacio Zepeda

Selvin Bonifacio Zepeda Morales (born 13 July 1981 in San Sebastián) is a Salvadoran football player who represented El Salvador at international level.

Sergio Mendizábal

Sergio Mendizábal (3 July 1920, San Sebastián, Spain) is a retired Spanish film actor who made over 100 appearances in film between 1955 and 1996.

Spanish rock

There are also large rock scenes in the large cities of the Basque Country such as Bilbao and San Sebastián, Valencia, and in Zaragoza but bands and venues exist throughout the country.

Spánverjavígin

Captain Martín de Villafranca of San Sebastián, whose father and grandfather had both been involved in Terra Nova whaling was among those who were killed.

Stanisław Radziwon

There he met smuggler who had been recommended to him and was led by him through the mountains to the outskirts of San Sebastian in Spain.

Straperlo

In 1935 they used their influence with the upper levels of the government to install the roulette in the casino Kursaal in San Sebastian but the police discovered the fraud and it was forbidden.

Summer capital

The location of San Sebastián in the cooler, northern part of Spain close to the French border ideally placed it as a summer capital alternative to Madrid.

Tecnun

The School of Engineering offers numerous degrees in engineering at its two campuses in the city of Donostia-San Sebastián.

Theobald II of Navarre

When the daughter, Berengaria, of Alfonso X of Castile was betrothed to Louis, eldest son and heir of King Louis, Castile ceded the use of the ports of Fuenterrabía and San Sebastián to Navarre on 1 January 1256.

William Kingston

In 1512 he was an under-marshal in the army; went to the Spanish coast; was with Dr. William Knight in October of that year at San Sebastian, and discussed with him the course to be pursued with the disheartened English forces who had come to Spain under Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset.


Borislav Pekić

The Devils Heaven (The Summer of White Roses) won an award at the film festival in Tokyo in 1989 and was selected the same year to represent Yugoslavia at film festivals in Montpellier (France), Pula (Croatia), San Sebastián (Spain), and Los Angeles and San Francisco (USA).

Carmen Baroja

Closing down after six issues her father went back to his profession as a mining engineer taking the family to Burjassot near València, Cestona in Guipúzcoa and San Sebastián.

Dyer baronets

The ninth Baronet was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the British Army and served in the Peninsular War, where he was present at Badajoz, Vitoria, San Sebastian, the Pyrenees, Nive, Orthez and Toulouse.

Estampes

At the time of its writing, Debussy's only personal experience with the country was a few hours spent in San Sebastián.

Euskotren Trena

Since August 2012, Euskotren Trena operates the Donostia/San Sebastián metro system, based on the Topo network, under the brand Metro Donostialdea.

Jesús María de Leizaola

Jesús María de Leizaola Sánchez (7 September 1896, San Sebastian - 16 March 1989) was a Basque politician and was named President of the Basque Government in exile after José Antonio Aguirre's death in 1960.

María San Gil

María San Gil Noain (born 15 January 1965, in San Sebastián) is a Spanish Basque politician.