San Sebastian Old Town Street

The view draws you straight down a narrow Old Town street in San Sebastian, the tall warm-toned facades rising on either side like two golden walls leaning gently toward each other. Wrought-iron lanterns jut from the buildings at eye level, and balconies crowded with trailing greenery and potted flowers add bursts of deep red and soft green against the amber and ochre of the walls. Midday light floods from above, casting long cool shadows across the pale paving stones below and leaving the upper storeys glowing. At the far end of the street, a slender Gothic spire rises above the rooftops, framed by a slip of blue sky, pulling the eye forward through the composition as naturally as the street itself does.