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The Picos de Europa mountains to the sea
They occupy a total area of 64,660 hectares with heights exceeding 2,500 meters and their northernmost point hardly 15 kilometres from the sea. The Picos de Europa, the most widely visited national park in Spain after the Teide National Park, are true giants just a step away from the coast. When one considers visiting these high rocky mountains covered with snow that lasts almost into the summer, people usually think of their popular cable car, climbing or mountaineering, but not of enjoying the sand, sun and the crystal clear water of the sea. However, this area of the Bay of Biscay governed by the great peaks offers travellers the chance to explore the coast on foot or byI need Spain
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Somo, Hawai reaches Cantabria
To catch the perfect wave, the trick lies in waiting, in rowing while the wave comes in. The sea provides. The wind and the breeze give the balance. Just you, Somo and the sea foam. The Mecca of surfing in Cantabria. There is a Hawai in Spain. Somo, a village of Ribamontán al Mar (Cantabria), has become a reference for wave riders from Spain and elsewhere. This beach of the Ribamontán del Sur (Cantabria) region has earned its fame for crests. Every year, hundreds of surfers come to this small coastal village to face a Cantábrico sea that was thought indomitable. The no more than 2,000 people who live in the place have leaI need Spain
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Santillana, the city of the three lies
They call it the city of the three lies because Santillana del Mar is neither a saint, nor flat, nor is by the sea. What Santillana (in Cantabria) does have is an admirable medieval historical quarter raised between cobbled streets and the “Sistine chapel” of quaternary art. This is the name given to Altamira Cave, one of the most important remains of rupestrian art on the planet. Declared Heritage of Mankind and defined as the most extraordinary representation of Palaeolithic art, the dome of the cave represents animals and figures of hunters whose impact has reached the most contemporary art. The philosopher and Spanish writer MigI need Spain
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What has the Pedreña green got that gives so many winners?
7 May 2011 was a sad day for Spanish sport, the day that brought us the death of the winner of three Augusta Masters, two British Opens and three Ryder Cups. It wasn't golf that lost a figure of such might, it was sport and the country as a whole. Severiano Ballesteros, Seve, as everyone knew him, put Spain on the map of elite sport and became one of the most revered figures in his discipline. The Cantabrian left an incomparable legacy that he started to forge that a very early age in the lands of his birth. Pedreña is one of the eight tiny villages making up the municipality of Marina de Cudeyo and the place where Seve was born, and although itI need Spain
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Slow trekking along the banks of the river Asón
The serenity of Cantabria along the north coast of Spain finds its centre in the Concejo de Soba (a group of 27 villages). It all starts with a waterfall, the waterfall on the river Asón. It is here where the river flow gets carried away and becomes white waters. Upstream, the conscious peacefulness of the place is overwhelmed with historical beauty, no rushing is allowed here. The path opens up to a relaxing stroll into the past. The waterfall, with a fall of 70 m, seems to have wanted to lift itself in order not to be unnoticed to anyone coming along the CA-265 highway. Here its waters emerge from the land after filtering in the natural lakes of the CollI need Spain
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The most avant-garde street in Santander
The sun is typically known as the life-giver, the element that lights up places and renews the colour of things each day. Maybe therefore, having chosen to be the ‘bride of the sea’, Santander never received the favours of the sun god. But this city is magnificent for the amends of its pretenders. The sun may at times come timidly, but the city invents its own sun, shaped by the street and compacted within the most ground-breaking and alternative avant-garde art of the region. Calle del Sol: 200 metres to give life, to put light and to renew the colour of things each day. An end has come to thinking that you only come to the Cantabrian capital to watcI need Spain
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Spain Visual – Cantabria, un nuevo destino espectacular
Spain Visual presentará el próximo 29/11/2012 un nuevo destino en su portal de turismo, Cantabria, una sinfonía de ocres, verdes y azules , una naturaleza espectacular en unos spot de video alucinantes. 30 nuevos spots de video en HD de creativos de video documental y turístico referente a esta comunidad, que han autorizado su uso en el portal, permitiendo así una presentación de “CANTABRIA” con unos spots llenos de sensibilidad y creatividad que reflejan y realzan los atractivos de ese destino y merecen un visita detenida. Gracias al trabajo de esos de creadores y otros que nos han dejado sus imágenes referentes a otras zonas dspainvisual
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A walk through the skies of Cantabria
The Áliva ports in Cantabria are not easily accessible. The only way to reach them is by doing eight kilometres in an all-surface vehicle. To overcome the inevitable (and steep) geographical hurdle is the Fuente Dé cable car, which guarantees a walk in the clouds and the arrival at one of the most privileged destinations in the mountains of northern Spain. Here, suspended in the air, visitors are confronted with unprecedented views of the natural monument of the Picos de Europa. Their destination, after travelling the 1,600 meters of cable and climbing over 750 meters, is the El Cable resort. Here there is a viewpoint that offers the best views of the Camaleño VaI need Spain
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