Cantabria Tourist Attractions: 15 Top Places to Visit
Planning to visit Cantabria? Check out our Cantabria Travel Guide video and see top most Tourist Attractions in Cantabria.
Top Places to visit in Cantabria:
Cueva Covalanas, Playa de La Arnia, Cave of El Castillo, Playa de Langre, Playa De Berria, Peninsula of Magdalena, Peninsula of Magdalena, Playa de El Puntal, Playa De Valdearenas, Playa de Ris, Barcena Mayor, Museo de Prehistoria y Arqueologia de Cantabria, Parque de Cabo Mayor, Iglesia de Santa Maria de Lebena, Cueva El Soplao
Visit our website:
Places to see in ( Cantabria - Spain ) Santander
Places to see in ( Cantabria - Spain ) Santander
Santander is the capital city of the Cantabria region on Spain’s north coast. The Palacio de la Magdalena, once the royal summer residence, lies at the mouth of the Bay of Santander on the rocky La Magdalena Peninsula. West, the city center is home to the Catedral de Santander, with its octagonal cupola and Gothic cloister. Nearby, the Paseo de Pereda promenade runs along one side of the Jardines de Pereda gardens.
Santander is an elegant city which extends over a wide bay with views of the Cantabrian Sea. Its historic quarter includes a group of majestic buildings which are situated against an incredible natural backdrop of sea and mountains. Its marine and commercial tradition is linked to a century old history of tourism, which has its main attractions in the famous El Sardinero beach, the promenade and the La Magdalena peninsula. The cultural wealth of the Cantabrian capital is enriched with the passage of the Pilgrim's Road to Santiago de Compostela and the neighbouring Altamira Caves, both of which have been declared World Heritage.
Santander is a city in which the mixture of its various vocations, seafaring, commercial and tourism traditions, remains patent. The city's origin is related to the Portus Victoriae founded by the Romans. However, the capital's urban development was not to come about until the XI c. when the town began to grow around the San Emeterio abbey. From its Latin name, Sancti Emeterii, comes the current name of Santander. During the XVIII and XIX centuries, the city became a key trading port for the maritime routes between Castile and the American colonies. From around the middle of the XIX century, Santander became one of the most exclusive summer tourist destinations on the northern coast of the Iberian peninsula.
The Paseo de Pereda, with its typical houses with miradors, and its gardens constitutes a lively boulevard which separates the coastal strip from the historic quarter of Santander. The nearby Cathedral is one of the oldest buildings in the capital, its earliest construction dating from the XIII c. Inside you can see the tomb of Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo, a work by the sculptor Victorio Macho. Under the main chapel is the crypt of El Cristo, a sombre vaulted chamber in which various traces of the Roman era were discovered.
Opposite the cathedral is the Plaza Porticada, in Neoherreran style surrounded by several public buildings. You find yourself at a major crossroads of lively commercial streets such as Arrabal or el Cubo.
One of these streets leads to the plaza del Generalísimo, site of the Town Hall, next to the popular market of la Esperanza, in the modernist style. Your visit has to continue through the Fine Arts Museum and the Menéndez Pelayo Stately Home, a building which has been declared an Historic-Artistic Site.
Returning to the Pereda gardens, you can see the Santander Bank and the small palace of El Embarcadero, a building with excellent views over the bay. Here you will find the fishing port and the Puerto Chico, as well as several maritime installations: the exchange, the harbour, the Naval Command, etc.
In the part of Santander where there is most tourism is El Sardinero. Opposite this famous beach you can enjoy one of the most beautiful promenades in Spain, with magnificent buildings such as the Gran Casino, which evokes the architecture of the Belle Époque. The Plaza de Italia, with its elegant, lively summer terraces, and the Piquío Gardens, which are situated on a rocky inlet marking the separation between the two beaches of El Sardinero, complete the picture.
( Cantabria - Spain ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting Cantabria . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Cantabria - Spain
Join us for more
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.
Four Day Road Trip Through Cantabria, Spain - Roulette Travel
I impulsively booked a flight to Madrid when the travel bug caught a hold of me - but after contemplating four days in a city, I decided to head north. About as North as you can go in Spain - to the city of Santander. From there, I rented a car and set out on this journey.
For more information about taking this trip, please visit roulette-travel.com - guided trips are available! To follow along with more adventures, don't forget to subscribe and follow instagram.com/roulette_travel
Music:
On Our Minds - Mindme ft. Cleo Kelly
Ten Feet - Daxto Remix - Curio ft. Daxten
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
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.
( Cantabria - Spain ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting Cantabria . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Cantabria - Spain
Join us for more
Cantabria Nature Adventure #HopeToSeeYouSoon - English
#HopeToSeeYouSoon #Santander #Cantabria #FuenteDe #Village #Tourism #Nature #Adventure #Mountains #Cantur #Spain #Summer #Vacation #Landscape #PicosDeEuropa #Bikers #MountainBike #MTB
Cantabria en tres minutos
Os muestro las zonas más especiales y bonitas de Cantabria: pueblos con mucho encanto, naturaleza, fauna, etc.
.
Night at the Dance Hall de Twin Musicom está sujeta a una licencia de Creative Commons Attribution (
Fuente:
Artista:
The Best Campgrounds at the Spanish Atlantic Coast | Camino del Norte accomodations
In today's video we are happy to present you 9 best and most beautiful campsites at the Spanish Atlantic oceancoast. We discovered them while walking Camino de Santiago del Norte and very excited to share them with you. They are all beautiful# situated in scenic locations and unique of their kind. If you're ready - then let's begin!
The list of the campsites mentioned in the video:
1. Camping Laredo:
2. Camping Santillana de Mar:
3. Camping Las Arenas:
4. Camping La Paz:
5. Camping Playa de Troenzo:
6. Camping L'Amuravela:
7. Camping Los Cantiles:
8. Camping Playa de Otur:
9. Camping San Rafael:
Find more information on our Blog:
Subscribe to the channel:
#bestcampings #bestcampgrounds #Spain
Let us know if you found this information useful and which campsite was your favourite in the comments below the video. Feel free to ask us any further questions dropping us a message on Facebook or Instagram. And subscribe to our Youtube channel to never miss a new video. Have a great day everybody and we'll see you very soon in the next video!
Our Hiking, Camping and Backpacking Tips and Tricks:
Full body stretching routine after a hike:
Best hairstyles for outdoors:
Watch our Morning Camping Routine:
Our Night Camping Routine:
What's in our backpack for the Camino:
*****
Ways to support the channel:
*****
Join us!
Facebook:
Instagram:
Thank you for watching and subscribing to our channel!
*****
We are a couple who once fell in love with mountains and couldn't get back. So we decided to follow our heart and move from a big city to a small village to be able to do what we love and to create this content. Our goal is to promote the healthy lifestyle, to motivate people to travel more and care for nature around. We are passionate walkers who love hiking, trekking and camping. We offer the detailed information of our hikes and routes, including the map and all the directions, so that you can repeat it if you'd like to.
We choose walking over driving and other types of transportation whenever we can because we learnt that this way we see so much more and can explore and feel the place better. Walking is an excellent activity that has so many benefits to your health and requires no special equipment or practice, so we encourage you to get the most out of it and get out walking.
We speak English, Spanish, French and Russian, so don't hesitate to address to us in your native language.
*****
For business and collaboration inquiries contact: walkingnatureworld@gmail.com
*****
Music by Walking Nature World
If you like the music in the videos we encourage you to visit and subscribe to our Music Youtube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCAOb-hSoOrwGyH9-bwiQcyQ
Listen to our music on Spotify:
On Itunes:
On Amazon:
On Soundcloud:
*****
DISCLAIMER:
All content on our channel is subject to copyright or other intellectual property ownership by the creators of Walking Nature World.
Pechon Street, Downtown, Kingston, Jamaica
Pechon Street is located in Downtown, Kingston, Jamaica (Caribbean).
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~