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Enjoy routes of an incomparable beauty, which alternate sea and mountain landscapes, plenty forests, green meadows and large valleys provides to nature lovers the perfect environment to practice.
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Hiking Routes
Routes that alternate between sea and mountain landscapes, abundant forests, green meadows, and vast valleys provide nature lovers with the ideal environment to enjoy the outdoors in unique settings:
- Camino del Norte: crosses Cantabria from east to west, passing through the historic four coastal towns (Castro Urdiales, Laredo, Santander, and San Vicente de la Barquera), as well as many other towns of historical and monumental significance, such as Santoña, Santillana del Mar, or Comillas.
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- The Joyel Marshes Route is one of the most appreciated by bird lovers. In about 40 minutes you will cover 1.5 km to Molino de Santa Olalla and return to Fuente de la Esprilla.
- The Pico Candiano Route (Padiérniga-Candiano-Padiérniga) offers some of the most striking views in the region. It is very easy, and in just over an hour you can sit in the shade of the mountain and enjoy the landscape offered by the coastal strip of the Santoña, Victoria, and Joyel Marshes Natural Park: 7 km in length with a maximum elevation gain of 325 meters.
You should also not forget other unique areas of Cantabria such as the Picos de Europa National Park, its via ferratas, or, on a clear day, you can go to Peña Cabarga and observe Santander from above. A true spectacle.
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Visit Santillana del Mar and Comillas
Santillana del Mar and Comillas are two other must-visit towns when exploring Cantabria.
Santillana del Mar is a true monument-city, where all you have to do is open your eyes and feel the history, art, and culture reflected in its streets and monuments. Known as “the town of three lies” (because it is neither holy, nor flat, nor by the sea), it will surprise you with its Monastery of Santa Juliana, the towers of Merino and Don Borja, its cobbled streets, and, of course, the Altamira Cave.
Comillas combines, as is often the case in Cantabria, art, culture, and nature. All its expressions will leave you speechless. As you stroll through its streets and enjoy its buildings, you can discover how its history was changed by emigrants returning from America in the 19th century, and how Modernism transformed it into a true beauty.
Among its monuments, it treasures an emblematic place: El Capricho de Gaudí. Nestled among trees, this building with Hispano-Arabic elements was designed by Gaudí for Máximo de Quijano, brother-in-law of the first Marquis of Comillas, and it surprises you at every corner.
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