At this picturesque small town, connected to Tenerife by a ferry-boat, Christopher Columbus made halt on his travel to America. He received help of Doña Maria de Bobadilla, the widow of Grafen Peraza, to repair one of his ships, La Pinta.
Many things in San Sebastian remind of those happenings still today. Of the Count's fortress, anyhow, only a tower is conserved, the Torre del Conde.