With port and seafaring history and traditions, Santander looks to a future ever more closely linked to the sea as it searches for new horizons connecting tourism, culture and innovation.

The perfect journey can begin opposite the city’s most outstanding feature: its bay, the only one in the north of Spain with a southern orientation, guaranteeing its membership of the exclusive Most Beautiful Bays in the World Club.

The city has 13 urban beaches.

One of the most popular places for tourists is the Magdalena peninsula which is presided over by a royal palace of the same name.

The city organises over 3000 cultural activities every year with a full and varied programme, and the city’s cultural offer has just been further extended with the incorporation of the impressive Botín Centre.

In the summer months Santander offers events such as “Los Baños de Ola”, fiestas which are of considerable tourist interest in the region and which serve as an appetiser for the Semana Grande (Big Week) fiestas.

Information obtained from the official tourism page of Cantabria..