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Cantabria Santander (Cantabria )

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Orígenes and age intercedes.During the Roman empire, it was known as Portus Victoriae Iuliobrigensium. Your current name drift of saint Emeterio, martyr of the III century whose middlings, according to the legend, went taken to there near those of saint Celedonio in the VIII century from bread-dispensing office to protect both relics of the Arab advance. In 1187 the Alfonso VIII king named to the abad of saint Emeterio mister of the people and endowed to the villa of a law. In 1248 Santander participated, near other villas of the Cantabrian, in the battle for the conquest of Seville, receiving as recompense a coat-of-arms it contains the images of the tower of the gold and the Guadalquivir river. During the XV century produced |enfrentamientos| between different familiar factions ( gileses and Negretes ) of the villa. Santander was an important port for wool coating at the end of the age intercedes, as well as for the commerce with the New World.In 1755 Fernando VI awards Santander the title of city. Until 1900 the Santander development will be united to the growing commerce with the colonies hispanize, being the projecting port of great part of the products of wool coating. This economic apogee did flower a mercantile bourgeoisie that, from half-filled of the XVIII century to ends of the XIX, impels the urban development of the city with the Santander widening ( that it enlarged the city towards the east in 2.690 square meters ).Author: Year of the dragon http ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santander_%28Cantabria%29

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