In the bicentennial of the San Sebastian fire, public institutions and associations aim to remember what happened and here we can find ourselves in 1813 of the San Telmo Museum. Exhibition The site, the fire and the reconstruction of San Sebastian. The sample is divided into three blocks and nine sections – two of them are exhibited in the Untzi Museoa – and in it the visitor will find contemporary works of art, engravings, historical documents and objects of other supports.

From what happened in San Sebastian in 1813, what has been told us mainly is that the British set fire and then the Donostiarras made the decision to rebuild the city. On the night of 31 August, hundreds of people were killed and dozens of women raped by the allies – the testimonies of this barbarism were published in report No. 2,377 of the light – but these data have almost always been in the shadow, and we still have difficulty in internalizing the suffering of civil society. Also in the exhibition of the San Telmo Museum can be seen this limitation, recognized by the organization itself – “it is difficult for these terrible events to become a spectacle” – and above all they have had to resort to the Goya summit work to represent, albeit briefly, the pain of the Donostiarras. It is clear that once the centenary is over, the need to work a report closer to citizenship will remain there.

In any case, the exhibition is a unique opportunity to better understand the context and the event of 1813, and in passing, you can expand the perspective in chronology with exhibitions organized in the Basque Museum of Baiona and the Zumalakarrangi Museum, the first of which focuses on the War of the Convention and the revolution of 1893, the second in the invasion and controversy of the hundred 1823 children of Luis de Luis.