Asturias - Cantabria - Cantabria
Duration
3 Days
Physical rate
Moderate
Start city
Madrid
Available
April 2024 / March 2025
Detailed day by day description
Introduction
Dear Traveler: thank you for choosing us to perform this Tour! We hope you enjoy your trip.
Here we give you a guidance on their tour with the information that we believe may be of your interest. The information is indicative, may exist variations on designated hours.
TRANSFER from the airport, if you have it included or purchasing. Our transfer will be waiting for you with a poster on behalf of Europamundo or its name to the output of the custom (after collecting your luggage)..
Remember to inform us by phone if you lost your connection flight or expected delay of their arrival, in your VOUCHER figure the phone of the transfer.
IMPORTANT: If you had additional nights upon arrival the hotel will have your reservation, but his travel guide normally will not be until the night before the start of the tour.
We will leave at the beginning of the morning. We cross Castilla y León. We stop at TORDESILLAS known for being the site where the Treaty of Tordesillas was signed, with which the Spanish and Portuguese crowns drew an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean, leaving the eastern hemisphere for the Crown of Portugal and the western hemisphere for the Crown of Spain. Tordesillas was also the place of confinement of Queen Juana la Loca in her last years until her death.
Continuation to LEÓN where with our guide we visit the city to get to know the fantastic Gothic cathedral of Santa María on the Way of St. James, the basilica of San Isidoro, the majestic former convent of San Marcos today converted into a Parador de Turismo, the Old Town Hall and Casa Botines, one of the three buildings outside Catalonia designed by Antonio Gaudí, creator of the Basilica of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. Time for lunch.
Later we cross the Cantabrian Mountains traveling to Asturias. Arrival at OVIEDO in the middle of the afternoon, capital of the Principality of Asturias. We take a walk with our guide to visit the cathedral of the ninth century, the Calatrava Palace, the Campoamor theater (headquarters of the famous Princess of Asturias Awards), Rua Street and Plaza de la Escandelera. For dinner, we recommend you to taste their famous "cachopos" (breaded beef fillets stuffed with Serrano ham and cheese) and Asturian cider.
We continue route following the sea to SANTILLANA DEL MAR, one of the most beautiful villages in Spain with its intact medieval center, popularly known as "the town of the three lies", since according to its inhabitants it is not holy, it is not flat, nor does it have a sea. In its vicinity we visit the Museum of THE CAVES OF ALTAMIRA, (entrance included), where one of the most important rock art places in history, declared World Heritage by UNESCO, is reproduced.
We continue to SANTANDER, capital of Cantabria, maritime city with stunning views between mountains and beaches. With our guide we will know this elegant coastal city and its beautiful bay, highlighting the Palacio de la Magdalena (summer residence of the Spanish royal family in the early twentieth century), the Botín Center, art center on the shores of the Bay of Santander, its cathedral and the beautiful Playa del Sardinero.
End of our services.