La creación del lugar Donostia - San Sebastian anterior a 1813: los casos de la colina sobre el puerto y del Campanario

Abstract

This work is about a research whose aim is to know with more scientific rigor the physic formation of the town of Donostia-San Sebastián in the past, as a valuable and useful tool for the understanding of the present day city and a better intervention on it. This research is divided in three phases: first, a collecting and a meticulous examination of the existing both iconographic and written documentation, based mainly on the ancient cartography; secondly, a process of reconstitution of the town in 1800, at full scale, by means of a 3D vectorial model; and last, an interpretation of the town formation and its permanences, with a graphic and visual transcription of acquired information. The study of the hill above the harbour and the Campanile, important features of the XVIIIth century city, is showed here as an example of the current research.