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San Sebastian (in Basque Donostia and officially Donostia-San Sebastian), coastal eminently tourist and commercial city located to the north of Spain, in Basque country. It is the capital of the historical territory of Guipúzcoa from 1854.En the period understood among 1880-1950, San Sebastian was the city of I par excellence vacation of the aristocracy: the Queen María Cristina, Victoria Eugenia, the King XIII Alfonso, Alba's Duchess..., what transformed it into one of the cities more important turísticamente of the country and with certain fame at European level.San Sebastian is the traditional name of the city in Spanish. Their origin is due to a monastery consecrated San Sebastian that was in the current location of the neighborhood of The Old one. The medieval village was founded by the Navarrese king Sancho the Sage toward 1180 in the proximities of the monastery and east settled down in it letter-populates it that the village called herself hence San Sebastian. As the document it was edited in Latin the name that he/she appears mentioned it is that of Sanctus Sebastianus that would evolve in romance until giving San Sebastian's name. San Sebastian has been traditionally the official name of the city up to 1980
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