Places to see in ( Cantabria - Spain ) Comillas
Places to see in ( Cantabria - Spain ) Comillas
Comillas is a small township and municipality in the northern reaches of Spain, in the autonomous community of Cantabria. The Marquisate of Comillas, a fiefdom of Spanish nobility, holds ceremonial office in the seat of power at a small castle which overlooks the town.
The Comillas Pontifical University was housed here before it moved to Madrid, and the old university buildings are among the finest examples of architecture in the town. Besides this, there are many notable medieval and baroque buildings. Comillas was the capital of Spain for a day, the 6th of August 1881, following an agreement between king Alfonso XII and the Minister's Council to gather at a formal meeting in town.
Comillas was first inhabited in prehistoric times when the caverns that are plentiful in the area were used as shelters. The Neolithic inhabitants left behind them rock paintings that depicted the animals they hunted. Magdalenian and Bronze Age artefacts have been found in nearby Ruiseñada, and there was an ancient mine at La Molina in which utensils and Roman coins have been found as well as an altar dedicated to the god Jupiter. Arrowheads have also been found here. On the border between Comillas and Ruiloba, heaps of shells have been found showing that the ancient people, besides hunting, specialised in collecting food from the sea.
The remains of the medieval castle of Peña del Castillo are still visible and another castle later occupied the same strategic site. The earliest documents relating to the town date to the eleventh century, although most of them were destroyed later in a fire at the town hall. Garcilaso de la Vega built a tower on the coast to demonstrate the towns dominance in maritime affairs. After the conclusion of the Valles Lawsuit against the Duke of Infantado in 1581, Comillas became part of the Province of Nine Valleys, a judicial and administrative body. Historically, the town was one of four towns making up the Alfoz of Lloredo. The town is sometimes known as the Town of the Bishops, because five priests who were born here went on to become bishops in several different dioceses during the Middle Ages.
Early in the twentieth century, the first marquis Antonio López y López invited King Alfonso XII to his mansion at Comillas and the town became popular with the aristocracy; the architect Joan Martorell built the enormous Palacio de Sobrellano on the instructions of the marquis.
Comillas is situated close to the coast in the autonomous community of Cantabria. To the north lies the Bay of Biscay and to the south the Cantabrian Mountains which run parallel with the coast, the highest point of which is the Torre de Cerredo, 2,648 metres (8,688 ft). Santander lies fifty kilometres to the east. There is a sandy beach and headlands and the town is set a little way back from the sea.
The Plaza del Corro de Campios, in the centre of the oldest part of the town, is surrounded by ancestral mansions with shields on the walls depicting the noble families who lived there. The town hall and the seventeenth century parish church of San Cristóbal are nearby, and there are some interesting mausoleums in the cemetery. The Neo-Gothic university buildings overlook the town. The Art Nouveau buildings are some of the finest in Cantabria and include the Sobrellano Palace Chapel, the Pantheon, and El Capricho, a fantastic creation by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí.
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Views from best beaches in Cantabria and Asturias (Spain)
Views of the Cantabria and Asturias coast lines. Filmed by drone, bebop2 in November 2017.
The images were filmed at the following places :
- Playa de Luaña in Cóbreces
- Ensenada de Mendia in Pimiango
- Rio Nansa in Pechon
- Rio Pas in Mogro
Camping Las Arenas, en Pechón - Cantabria
Localizado en la Ría de Tina Mayor, donde entran los barcos de recreo, de pesca y veleros, se disfruta de las maravillosas playas El Pedrero y Las Arenas que ven desembocar las aguas del Rió Deva en el abrupto Mar Cantábrico.
Places to see in ( Cantabria - Spain ) Cueva El Soplao
Places to see in ( Cantabria - Spain ) Cueva El Soplao
El Soplao is a cave located in the municipalities of Rionansa, Valdáliga and Herrerías in Cantabria, Spain. It is considered unique for the quality and quantity of geological formations in its 17 miles length, 6 of which are open to the public.
In it are formations such as helíctites (eccentric stalactites defying gravity) and curtains (draperies, or sheets of calcite, sometimes translucent, hanging from the ceiling). Its formation dates back to the Mesozoic, in particular the Cretaceous period 240 million years ago. The entrance is at 540 metres in the Sierra Soplao Arnero.
The cave was accidentally discovered during drilling for mining, subsequently being exploited for the extraction of minerals. During its operation, many local families were supported by the income they got from the mining, combined with farming livestock. After decades of neglect, speleology, and in particular the Cantabria University Speleology Club since 1975, have discovered its true geological value.
On July 1, 2005 the Government of Cantabria opened it to the public and publicised it internationally, after development for tourism and protection rules prohibiting any further activity by the discoverering club. Research goes on, resulting in the study of amber deposits, the recognition of underground stromatolites formed by manganese-oxidising bacteria, and a new mineral form, zaccagnaite-3R.
The cave recently started holding music concerts. Artists like Bertín Osborne or Nando Agüeros have played inside the cave for hundreds of people in 2016. El Soplao is just one of at least 6,500 underground caves in Cantabria.
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Santander Travel Video Tour
A travel video tour of the beautiful city of Santander, located in Cantabria, north of Spain. Full of nature and historical places, Santander is an extraordinary holiday destination! This video is brought to you by travelguidesdirectory.com
Cascada de El Bolao, Cóbreces (CANTABRIA) en TVE 1, España Directo
La costa occidental de Cantabria nunca deja de impresionar por sus abruptos y bellos acantilados y, en el caso que nos ocupa, por los secretos que en ellos se esconden.
Por cortesía de ASOCIACIÓN SOCIOCULTURAL EL MOLINO DE BOLAO
Places to see in ( Cantabria - Spain ) Cuevas de Puente Viesgo
Places to see in ( Cantabria - Spain ) Cuevas de Puente Viesgo
The Cueva de El Castillo, or the Cave of the Castle, is an archaeological site within the complex of the Caves of Monte Castillo, and is located in Puente Viesgo, in the province of Cantabria, Spain. It contains the oldest known cave art in Europe.
Some researchers argue this might even be the oldest known example of artwork in the world and possibly a product of Homo neanderthalensis. Hand stencils, claviforms (club shapes) and disks made by blowing paint onto the wall in El Castillo cave were found that date back at least 40,800 years, making them older than those of the Chauvet Cave in central France, which are dated to around 39,000 years BP.
As traditional methods such as radiocarbon dating do not work where there is no organic pigment, a team of British, Spanish and Portuguese researchers led by Dr. Alistair Pike of the University of Bristol dated the formation of tiny stalactites on top of the paintings using the Uranium-thorium dating technique, thus obtaining a minimum age for the art. Where larger stalagmites had been painted, maximum ages were also obtained.
The archaeological stratigraphy has been divided into around 19 layers, depending on the source they slightly deviate from each other, however the overall sequence is consistent, beginning in the early Aurignacian, around 44,100 years ago and ending in the Bronze Age.
Cueva del Castillo was discovered in 1903 by Hermilio Alcalde del Río, a Spanish archaeologist, who was one of the pioneers in the study of the earliest cave paintings of Cantabria. The entrance to the cave was smaller in the past and has been enlarged as a result of archaeological excavations.
Alcalde del Río found an extensive sequence of images executed in charcoal and red ochre on the walls and ceilings of multiple caverns. The paintings and numerous markings and graffiti span from the Lower Paleolithic to the Bronze Age, and even into the Middle Ages. There are over 150 depictions already cataloged, including those that emphasize the engravings of a few deer, complete with shadowing.
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MEDITERRANEAN SPAIN - Road trip testing the GH5!
Filming my 7 days road trip along the Spanish Mediterranean coast with the great Panasonic Lumix GH5.
Visiting the mediterranean cities of Barcelona, Valencia and Granada and 2 small villages of the south of Spain: Nerja and Frigiliana.
A good opportunity to test my new Panasonic GH5, still learning about filming and editing with Adobe Premiere Pro.
The lens I have used for Panasonic GH5 test:
- Leica 12-60mm F2.8 (kit lens)
- Lumix 7-14mm F4
- Leica SUMMILUX 25mm F1.4
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- Transitions inspired by Thomas Alex Norman:
- Adobe Premiere transitions presets by Chung Dha:
- LUT orange & teal by FilmVentureStudies
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Cartes (Cantabria) ni te lo imaginas
MÁS VÍDEOS DE VIAJES AQUÍ:
La villa de Cartes fue declarada bien de interés cultural, en la modalidad de Conjunto Histórico, el 29 de marzo de 1985, por conservar el casco urbano toda una serie de edificaciones de los siglos XV, XVII y XVIII que, a pesar de pertenecer a diferentes épocas, conservan un estilo homogéneo con sus fachadas de mampostería. Destacan los torreones góticos, de planta rectangular, atravesados por la parte inferior por dos grandes arcos ojivales; datan del siglo XV.
Pérez Galdós ambientó en esta villa su novela Marianela (1878).
Agosto de 2016.
Cascada de El Bolao (Cóbreces - Cantabria)