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National museum and center of investigation of Altamira Populares

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The national museum and center of investigation of Altamira ( or simply museum of Altamira ) is a center for the conservation, investigation and diffusion of the caves of Altamira, near Santillana of the sea ( Cantabria, Spain ), noted patrimony of the humanity for the UNESCO.Junto to the caves, the museum offers to the workshops visitor of prehistoric technologies and the permanent exposition " the times of Altamira ", with reasonable objects of this bed, as well as those of Morín, the Juyo and Rascaño. Also it forms part of this exposition the denominate "|neocueva|", an artificial answer of the original caves, built with object to preserve the same thing of the by-proucts harms of a |masiva| flowing of visitors.

Santillana of the sea, a reverse to the age intercedes Populares

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Due to that it is an important tourist focus your paved are silent they finds almost in your replete totality of Christmas parties and shops of typical products cantabrians. fit highlight the valued anchovies of Santoña, the famous with protruding upper teeth cheese of Tresviso and the drief beef of deer, between other. Besides the shops of feeding, also it are |destacables| the establishments of |artesanales| products, predominating the sculptures of |pesonajes| of the Cantabrian mythology.The Santillana location of the sea, is known popularly as the " people of the three lies ", because the city neither is blessed, neither plain, nor has sea.

Florid balconies of Santillana of the sea Populares

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16/8/2008 15:47

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Santillana is one of the Cantabrian locations more visited, given the conservation of an architectural and city-planning medieval patrimony where stands out the whole of large houses and roast lightly that symbolize the can nobiliary of the time. The development of the villa, declared historical artistic whole in 1943 , it takes place as of the building that it centralized the can religious, the collegiate church of Julian female saint, jewel of the Romanesque thing in Spain. Your florid balconies are present in the whole location.

Santillana of the plaza sea Populares

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The plaza of the market, so named for the existence of a weekly market from 1209 , it constituted the civil nucleus of the villa, with the towers of the regal representative ( the merino ) and of the main lineages. They have kept four roasts lightly Gothic of the XIV and XV centuries: those of the merino and Borja present ( soothes of the Santillana foundation ) in the plaza of the market, and those of Velarde and hill in the street of the canton, besides the house of Eleanor of the fertile lowland, mother of the Santillana marquis. along the streets and about the plazas erected roast lightly, large houses and palaces, in different times and styles.

Tower of Borja present or Santillana foundation of the sea Populares

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It is in the plaza of Ramón Pelayo. Although must have medieval origin, the kept part and restored appears be of ends of the XV century or principles of the XVI. to the patrons of the railing sees a shield with the coat of arms of the barrier. It has an inside yard that it unites the two volumes. Must your name to Francisco present of Borja Barreda, last descendant of the barrier in the century XIX. Between your proprietary later was the Bourbon peace lady of the house female infant. In 1981 it went restored to be the seat of the Santillana foundation.

Santillana of the civil architecture sea Populares

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The by the root popular edifications based on the construction on gable ends and by forming files go to taking steps to the introduction of a new model of exempt palace, of rectangular plant, two altitudes, with the main facade in one of the bigger patrons, divided in three vertical bodies, sometimes separated for pilasters sunk deeply, doors and windows with flat arches, rectangular balconies or pulpits with ornamental ironwork and enlarges stony cornice on she who flies the girders of the framework of wood of the roof, that it be generally to four waters ( in many Protestant occasions recently ). In the shop ground floor of |souvenirs| and |tipicos| products

Santillana of the sea, palaces and large houses Populares

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16/8/2008 15:58

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House of the hefty men or town hall. It is put near the called Eleanor house of the fertile lowland, in the street of the canton. It is a built house between the XV and the XVII century. It is gave this name for the two gentlemen with mustache they maintain the enormous baroque shield of the facade, coat of arms of the villa.

Port of the Cantabria -Burgos snowfall shield Populares

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The port of the shield is a port of mountain to 1.011 meters of fixed income altitude in the valley of Luena, eastwards of the saw of the shield and in the limit between Cantabria and wool coating and lion ( province of small towns ). In it sprouts the magdalen river or Luena, affluent of the river Pas.Desde acquire seniority of service this step has been one of the main pathes of access from the coast to the plateau by going through the Cantabrian chain of mountains. At present it roams for it the N-623 highway, known for your strong ramps in your Cantabrian slope that they can arrive until 15% and for the difficulty for the transit of the heavy vehicles

"infinite" finishes off sprouted elephant in the park of Cabarceno Populares

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2/8/2008 10:31

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The day of May 3 are of celebration, in Cabárceno, infinite, our small female elephant sprouted in the 2005. It is the but youth of the African elephants inflamed boils in |semilibertad|. The first went "dandy".

Bandera Cantabria Populares

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The colors of the Cantabria official flag (Spain), symbol of the region, remain established in the own text of the statute of autonomy. It subtracted for making concrete the characteristics of the shield that it must accompany to the regional insignia, which it carried out for law of the regional assembly, passed on 22th December 1984. From that moment the Cantabria flag is formed for two horizontal bands of similar width, white the superior and red the inferior, and the shield of the region that is put in your geométrico.Es center inheriting of the pennant that in the XVIII century it identified to the seaport of Santander.http ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandera_de_Cantabria

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