Walking around Santander - Free walking tour

Visit 1: City Center The free visits or of free payment (freetours) is an option that every day has greater acceptance and demand. A walk of approximately 2.30 hours, accompanied by OFFICIAL GUIDES, through the center of the city of Santander, showing the most important places, making reference to their history and culture, also to the popular traditions and habits of the people of Santander. We try, as always in our activities, to be an interesting, entertaining and lasting experience in the memory of each one. Santander offers attractions for all tastes. We include something traditional such as the Fish Market of the Plaza de las Esperanza (except Sunday and Monday, which have no activity), one of the few remaining markets in Spain, where you can see some special features of our cuisine of the sea. Next, the City Hall. We continue through the most important shopping streets, to the Plaza de la Catedral, an important place, not only for the Cathedral Temple, but also for the Romanesque Crypt of Santo Cristo and the remains of what could have been a Roman settlement that could have been the origin from the city of Santander. From here, to the Pereda Gardens, where one of the emblematic buildings and institutions of the city is located, the Botín Center, designed by the architect Renzo Piano. Perhaps, the heart of the cultural area of ​​the city. Santander is, and was, a city open to the sea. Here, on the shores of the Bay, we will talk about the historical relationship between the city and the sea. As it was before the great fire of 1941, as it has been gaining ground to the sea, to shape the current city.