By its history and natural wealth, Santillana del Mar is one of the most attractive points of Cantabria and one of its main centers of tourist attention.
The medieval town lodges between its spotted streets jewels like the Collegiate church of Santa Juliana, with its cloister Romanesque, surrounded by numerous houses and noble palaces that conform magical surroundings.
In the environs the Caves and Museum of Altamira, that probably count on more famous prehistoric paintings of the world.
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In Santander and its proximities we found a great diversity of places of tourist interest that offer diverse attractive for their visit, emphasizing the Capital (great monument diversity, Stroll of Pereda, Palace of Festivales, the Palace of the Magdalena, the Sardinero and its beaches), Liencres (with its Natural Park, the system to dunar more extensive of all the Cantabrian coast), Peña Cabarga (whose summit offers impressive a panoramic one of almost all Cantabria), the Park of the Nature of Cabárceno (zoological the most extensive one of Europe, unique in its species).
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The Nature Park of Cabárceno is a place where you will have a great time, plus you will be mesmerized by the hundreds of animals that roam the park in an almost completely free state.
The Nature Park of Cabárceno is a must visit for all those enjoying Cantabria or the north of Spain.
A unique place at only 20 km from Santander city, offering a surprisingly view of nature.
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The Altamira Cave and Museum are located about 2 km from the village of Santillana del Mar in Cantabria (Spain).
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The Cave The Soplao keeps within a natural paradise, made up of impressive formations, lined with large areas of aragonite, false ceiling, stalactites, stalagmites and, in particular elliptic [removed][removed] al or eccentric that cause all sorts of play of light and shadows, feelings, colors and smells.
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The surroundings that surround valleys by the Asón, Soba and Ruesga, in the Eastern interior of Cantabria, are a true natural paradise, emphasizing the Natural Park of Cols of the Asón, the birth of laughed Gándara and its Network of Caves (Covalanas, Coventosa, Cullavera…), with impressive geologic wonders.
The well-known zone by the fishing of river, the sanctuaries of Our Lady of the Appeared Good and Santo Christ de Limpias, by its coastal localities Castro Urdiales and Laredo, as well as to contain in its subsoil some of the longest caves of Europe, is beginning to be open pie as tourist destiny, due to the height of the rural tourism, of ecological adventure.
The valley of the Besaya river reasons from time immemorial by the geographic center of Cantabria, being the main one communication channel between the plateau and the Cantabrian ports.
From Torrelavega begins the call “Route of the Romanesque”, being able to cross itself Bárcena de Pie de Concha and Pesquera enters standing up the section of Roman road better conserved of Cantabria.
In the municipalities next monuments of great value, as much of civil character (Cartes, Riocorvo, Las Fraguas, Barros), like monk (Silió, Yermo), the great majority of them declared historical-artistic monuments.
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Located in the South end of Cantabria, the region of Campoo constitutes a natural and landscaping scene of enormous wealth. Their historical rest, like the Roman road or the vestiges of the city of Julióbriga, coexist with attractive tourist present as the ski Alto Campoo or the nautical benefit of the nature and sports in the dam of the Ebro.
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This area has great tourism assets such as beaches, nature, gastronomy and culture. Of the municipalities that form are Santillana del Mar, Comillas and San Vicente de la Barquera the most renowned and thus are major destinations, both in the region and in Cantabria.
In the western region lead two of the longest rivers in Cantabria: the Deva and also Nansa Escudo River. In addition to the numerous beaches, we find the Oyambre Natural Park and Mount Corona.
The region of the east coast the following municipalities Colindres, Laredo, Liendo and Castro Urdiales.
Concentra one of the most beautiful village of Cantabria, all of them gifted with magnificent infrastructure and communications services.
They enjoy excellent beaches each year attract hundreds of tourists during the summer., Highlighting among them by their large size La Salve de Laredo.
Liébana is a traditional place for rural tourism and to enjoy nature with numerous hiking trails and forest roads that invite walking and hiking.
One of the must is Fuente Dé, at the foot of the Picos de Europa, which has great appeal as a cable car.
Among its attractions is the authentic character of their villages and rich historic and artistic heritage, with sites such as pots, Lebeña (with Mozarabic church), the Romanesque monastery of Piasca, Mogrovejo, and the monastery of Santo Toribio de Liebana.
Zone located between valleys of the rivers Saja and Nansa, includes the dead grounds of the Natural Park of Oyambre and the National Reserve of the Saja.
It is a paradise for the ecological, rural and active tourism, with an important historical-artistic patrimony.
They predominate the guaranteed tranquillity and an ebullient nature, being able to enjoy so much the mountain as of the sea, which allows the practice of diverse activities of adventure like senderismo routes, quads, reduction of canoes, rafting, surf...
The cost of Trasmiera region lying between the bay of Santander and Santoña, occupying much of the eastern coast of Cantabria.
In his journey full of steep cliffs and abundant beaches, wild beaches are beautiful, such as Langre and Galizano and other towns close to the tourist locations as well known as Noja, Isla, Garlic, or Somo Loredo.
With regard to religious architecture include the church of Santa Maria del Puerto in Santoña, and Santa Maria de Bareyo, jewel of the romantic mountains.
One of the most beautiful places is the region of Cantabria Pasiega, a place that retains its tradition and culture with clearly distinct character and culture of the rest of Cantabria mountain, and where one of his most marked traits has been the isolation, because for which remain intact until very recently many of their customs.
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