The climb up the tower featured on the tower's interior walls many old photographs from the past hundred or so years in San Sebastián, as well as some placards that gave a history of the city and its environs.
One of the placards mentioned that Franco had summered in the city from the end of the civil war until his death in the autumn of 1975. It had never, ever occurred to me that summering would be a thing a fascist dictator would do. Wasn't he too busy, you know, executing people and stuff?
Even ruthless dictators need to take vacations. I wouldn’t be surprised if Kim Jong-un has some sort of summer retreat somewhere in North Korea.