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Cantabria dresses and dance |tipicos| Populares

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The Cantabrian dress is very varied according to the different regions to those who mentions to him. The |pasiego| dress is the more representative and the best well documented thing in Cantabria and even in Spain, must in great part to that the inhabitants of the poses were dedicated to give it to know for the whole country, well through the restless merchants, well by means of the famous wet nurses.In the valley of the poses and in the wet nurses heads they highlight the vestiments because are rich in adornments and complements. It are dresses that move close us of the century XIX, if they can keep some element of previous times as baby caps or cloth caps that they were the custom from the age intercedes or, of the |prerromano| world, the leather sandals or the typical carried out |albarcas| in wood.

Cantabria folclore Populares

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17/8/2008 18:01

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The Cantabria |folclore| presents a great variety along your valleys with complicated dances of lances or beat sticks together, form popular as the |lebaniego| large rat or effeminate |montañesas| or religious as |picayos|. It there was a rich tradition of where vocal music highlights the |montañesa| accent characteristic with the single voice or accompanied of bagpipes, the night watches, the accompanied stanzases caustics for the rebec and the tambourine-players. An instrumental enough popular group is the constituted for a tabor and an acute denominate clarinet local as highland |pitu|.

Laredo, open space of tasted food beforehand it Populares

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17/8/2008 17:03

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Put in the urban case of Laredo, it is the more extensive sandy place of the whole Cantabria littoral ( 4.160 meters ) and boasts of be one of the too much flowing of visitors.CharacteristicsLongitude: 4.160 metersType: Whole of open space, of steel blade and dies sand, and dunesSlope and unevenness: SoftCalm waters

Tunel of the lookout in Laredo Populares

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17/8/2008 16:49

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Located below the mountain of the lookout, it was built in 1863 , with the end to permit the “Muelle construction of the Soledad”, to the other side of the lookout. It has a longitude of 221 m, and at the end of the same thing it finds the “Mirador of the Abra” totally integrated in the natural halfback, from in which can contemplate the littoral of Laredo and accede to foot to an area to him cliff

|cantabrica| coast of Laredo Populares

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17/8/2008 16:44

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Laredo finds to him nailed in a privileged place of the Cantabria eastern coast. Surrounded of mountains and of the Bay of Biscay, your localization allows you to enjoy sandy place of great beauty and quality and of natural spaces protecteds. In your urban helmet, the open space is found of extension major of the whole Cantabrian littoral ( quite a few kilometers of extension ) and departs of the municipality it finds in the natural park of the swamps of Santoña, Noja and small jewel

Tipicas |balconadas| of Santillana of the sea Populares

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16/8/2008 15:20

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In the occidental coast of Cantabria they find two of the more valuable cultural treasures of as many as to can be found in this region: Santillana of the sea and the caves of Altamira. Santillana of the sea, to a few 30 kilometers of Santander, is an alive museum of a medieval developed villa environment to the collegiate church of Julian female saint, although the majority of your hamlets corresponds to the diverse architectural contributions of the XIV centuries to the XVIII. The Santillana historical-artistic whole cannot visit to him more that standing.

Collegiate church of Julian female saint in Santillana of the sea Populares

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16/8/2008 15:23

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It finds at the end of the two streets of the people. It is a collegiate church of Romanesque style, raised up to the status of your major departs halfway trough the XII century, with additions of later centuries. Monument protected for real order of 12th March 1889 being the first Cantabrian monument that obtained this reconnaissance. It is built in stone of gritty chairs. It has plants |basilical| and three aisles that they comes to an end in semicircular apses. It is a structure that follows the model of the Romanesque thing of the Milky Way, specially of Frómista. The more outstanding part of the whole is the university council, of ends of the XII century, specially for your forty and two Romanesque capitals.

Santillana of the sea, dressed of the Romanica collegiate church Populares

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16/8/2008 15:25

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The constructive outline answers those of a church of three aisles of four sections and transept, three semicircular apses, a cylindrical tower, and dome on the crossroads. It is completed the whole with an university council and the abattial accessories. The sculpture of your |porticada| , capitals and trusses evokes the fundamental topics of the medieval religiousness, specially the fight between the good and the wrong, and the need of the penance and the pardon to save of the punishments of the hell. This message is shown through allegories and animal symbols ( lions, pelicans, whitecaps, ravens, snakes, goats...) and vegetable ( apples, ferns, acanthus, irises, grapevine, grapes, blows...) as well as some human scenes.

Houses of the Quevedo and Cossío in the monumental Santillana of the sea Populares

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16/8/2008 15:30

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They find to him near the watering place that there is a few meters before the collegiate church. Date from the XVII centuries-XVIII. It is two houses placed in squares so that form a single housing. The house of the north part is the house of Cossío and those of the south part is the Quevedo house. In the first it can deal with the Cossío coat of arms. In the second, that belonged to a familiar of Francisco of Quevedo and Villegas sees the shield of the Quevedo family. The Quevedo house is of chairs and it has an arched tunnel that servs as drainage to the watering place and to the river.

Plaza of Ramón Pelayo of Santillana of the sea Populares

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16/8/2008 15:35

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The villa is cleared the way towards the north through an unique path, the street of Santo Domingo, that soon bifurcates to him in form of “Y”: in those of John Infante, that conducts to the plaza of Ramón Pelayo; and she who taking diverse names ( run, canton and of the river ) it directs until the collegiate church. In the plaza of, of triangular trace, are located to him one of the more representative buildings.

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