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Situated midway along the Cantabrian coast, sandwiched between the northean cordillera and the sea, the Region covers 5289 square Kilometres and has a population of just over half a million. The capital of Cantabria is Santander, the Region´s administrative and comercial centre and a city with one of the most beautiful locations in Spain. With the Cantabria sea to the north and splendid bay to the south, this one time tin fishing port is now a popular and fashionable city of wode maritime promenades and extensive parks and gardens.
Nature´s gifts to Cantabria varied and impressive: they include the reserves of the Saja forest, the Picos de Europa mountains, the Santoña marshes and the Dunes of Oyambre; and no less than fifty eight beaches strung out along the coastline. In addition, the nature park of Cabarceno, with its five hundred wild animals, and the only one of its kind in Europe is a great attraction for visitors, as are the FIVE GOLF COURSES of Mataleñas (Santander), Pedreña, Oyambre, Nestares and Abra del Pas.
The Museum of the Prehistory, the Fine Arts and the Maritime Museums; the Menendez Pelayo library and the Magdalena Palace, seat of the International University of Menendez Pelayo, all near testimony to the level of Cantabria´s cultura attainment. Local cuisine is rich and varied, drawing as it does on products from both land and sea: fish and seafood, beef cattle norished in lush pastures, cheeses and confectionery made with milk from the region´s famous dairy herds. Yo can find more delaited information in the Guide to Cantabria. All
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CANTABRIA
Acces to Cantabria is easy by means of
a modern communiocations network: by motorway from the Basque Country,
the French frontair and beyond; two main roads, the N 611 via Palencia
and the N 623 via Burgos, link the region with Madrid and southern
Spain; the airports of Parayas and Sondica, ten minutes and an hour´s
drive, respectively, from Santander, provide excellent national and
international air service; and there are trains, long distance coach
services, and a car ferry to England.
The history of Cantabria is written in
stone in ots towns and villages. Of its primitive inhabitants we have
graphic evidence in the polichrome paintings of Altamira in Santillana
del Mar, the reproduction of which will open to the public in 1.999,
and is over thirty other sites containing engravings belonging to
different periods of prehistory. The region also has a rich and abundant
variety of religious and civil architecture, with fine examples of
romanic, gothic, barroque and even modernistic style as in the case
of Gaudi´s Capricho´s cultural attainment.