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g Santander long and 18 m (59 ft)
wide, is a combina tion of
Cantabria. Road Map F1. * 174,000.
k £ @ g n Jardines de Pereda; Romanesque and Gothic.
942 20 30 00. ( daily. _ Semana Found here are the
Grande (for one week up until 25 Jul), reliquaries of two martyrs
San Emeterio & San Celedonio (31 – San Emeterio and San
Aug), Baños de Ola (2nd half of Jul). Celedonio – who were
∑ santanderspain.info Roman legionnaires
born in León. When
Cantabria’s capital enjoys a Cloisters at Santander Cathedral the Romans began to
splendid location near the persecute Christians,
mouth of a deep bay, with the latter stands the Iglesia de San the courageous brothers
port on one side and moun­ Francesco. Just east of the made a public declara tion of
tains on the other. A good place museum is Santander’s market, their faith, for which they
to begin is the Museo de Arte offering a wide selection of were sentenced to death by
Moderno y Contemporáneo, produce, fish and meats. beheading; their severed heads
founded in 1907 as the Museo Santander has an array of were brought by fishing boat to
de Bellas Artes. It focuses on interesting 19th­ to 20th­century Santander. The city is named
modern and contemporary architecture. Of note after the first of these two
art, but also has some is the Iglesia de martyrs (Portus Sancti Emeterii
important older pieces. Santa Lucia (1868) by – Sant’Emter – Santander).
Apart from works by Antonio de Zabaleta, an After leaving the cathedral,
Cantabrian landscape artist who introduced it is worth paying a visit to the
artists, there is a fine Romantic architecture to Museo de Prehistoria, with its
portrait of Fernando VII Spain. A good example of interesting collection of finds
by Goya, interesting Neo­Gothic architecture is from various Cantabrian caves
canvases by Miró, the Jesuit Iglesia del that were inhabited in
and paintings by the Sagrado Corazón. The prehistoric times.
17th­century Portuguese much­remodelled cathedral, There’s no better place to relax
artist Josefa D’Obidos. whose Roman esque­ than on Santander’s beautiful
Since 1924 the Exhibit in the Museo de Gothic crypt (c.1200) beaches. The 2­km (1.2­mile)
museum has Prehistoria was built on the long Playa el Sardinero, which
occupied a building remains of an earlier shares its name with the city’s
designed by Cantabrian Roman building, was rebuilt northern suburbs, is one of the
architect Leonardo Rucabado, after a fire in 1945. The aisled eight most unpolluted beaches
near the main square; on the interior, measur ing 31 m (102 ft) in the world. It became popular

Parque de
BARRIO CUETO VALD ENOJA
Santander City Centre Matelenaz
DI EG O MA DRA Z O
1 Museo de Arte Moderno y AVE N ID A DO CTO R
Contemporáneo CALLE VALDEN OJA N
2 Market AVE N I D A D E L F A R O
3 Cathedral
4 Museo de Prehistoria CALL E DOCT O R MÉRAÑO
5 Playa el Sardinero
6 Palacio de la Magdalena AVE. DE PONTEJOS Parque del
dr Gonzáles
Mesones
Sardinero
Estadio Playa el Mar
Universidad Municipal de Jardines Cantábrico
de Piquío
0 metres 500 de Cantabria El Sardinero AVENIDA CA STANEDA
A V E N I D A D E L O S C A S T R O S San Roque Gran Casino
0 yards 500
CAL L E D E HO NDU RAS
E NCINA
Camello
FE RN A ND O D E L OS RÍ O S TUNEL DE TETUAN BAJA D A DE LA Iglesia de los Playa del

BURGOS PA S E O D E L GEN E R A L DÁ VILA Redentoristas C. DUQUE DE S. MAURO V I CT O R I A Parque de
PALENCIA CA L L E D E RAMÓN Y CAJAL La Magdalena
Parque Parque PLAZA
Altamira de Jado ALTO DE
AV E N I D A DE L A R E I N E
Consevatorio Modesto PA S EO ME N E N D E Z P E L AY O MIRANDA PAS E O DE PEREZ GALDOS
de Musica San Tapia Centro Cultural Palacio de
PA S E O D E C A N A L E J A S
Francesco
Biblioteca Santa dr. Madrazo Casa Pardo la Magdalena
Playa de
Menéndez Pelayo C . GU EVAR A Lucía C. SANTA LUCÍA los Peligros
Museo de
Mercado Prehistoria Isla de
Museo de Palacio de Instituto la Torre
PLAZA
Arte Moderno y DE MATIAS Festivales Oceanográfico
Contemporáneo Catedral PASEO DE PEREDA MONTERO Museo
Jardines Planetario Maritimo
de Pereda Palacete
C. DE A. LOPEZ Bahia de Santander
Comandancia
de Marina
Airport BILBAO
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