Free Tour Santander Novia Del Mar - your contact

An ideal route to have a first contact with the capital of Cantabria , its history, its people, its traditions and with the orange umbrella guides who will teach, entertain and excite you. Get ready, not to get to know Santander, but to experience it.


Welcome to Santander, the so-called "most beautiful bay in the world".
That of the idyllic landscape, the beaches, the aristocracy of El Sardinero, the illustrious characters, the bank,... but also that of the marine life, the docks, sardine boats, fishermen, nets and raqueros.

A city of many faces and contrasts that has always been and will be "La Novia Del Mar". Join us in this "love-hate" story, capable of overshadowing Romeo and Juliet, while you walk and get to know each street and monument of one of the Cantabrian jewels.

• Our tour will begin in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento , in the heart of the city, where we will whet your cultural appetite to go to the Mercado de La Esperanza and see a sample of daily life in Santander, as well as local gastronomy. Did we say cultural appetite? You will see the gazuza that enters you.
• With our mouths watering and in case someone has sinned with gluttony, we will go to mass to ask the priest for forgiveness. Not literally, but we will visit the Church of the Annunciation, the Santander Cathedral and its surroundings, to learn about them in detail, how Santander "married" with the sea and how this is shown in the streets we walk on. This city teaches much more than it seems!!!
• But every relationship has its moments of crisis. With the Plaza de Alfonso XIII as a witness, we will marujear on the most dramatic moments of the Santander - Mar couple. Moments in which history has had a good roll up , such as the explosion of Cabo Machichaco or that disastrous Valentine's Day that led to the Great Fire from 1941. They love each other, but sometimes these two take each other to kill!!!
• Not everything is drama in Santander. The expansion is the result of the best and most beautiful moments of this peculiar couple. We are going to wander through the Jardines de Pereda, the Plaza Porticada, the Plaza de Pombo or the Mercado del Este , some of the scenes with the greatest growth and prosperity in the city. Emblematic places with a handful of illustrious characters as narrators of the story.
• We are already learning a lot about Santander, but what better way to talk about your relationship with your lover than your lifelong neighbors? No one beats those! For this reason, we will cross the neighborhood of El Arrabal , home to sailors and netters, the most traditional streets of the city and where, if you close your eyes and concentrate, you can still feel the saltpeter, the waves and the bustle of the boats.
• In the end, with the high points and the low points, a long-term relationship pays off. A tour of the Santander docks, along Paseo Pereda , will serve as the best synthesis of the harmony of the city with the Cantabrian Sea and to introduce the couple's churumbeles: the Raqueros . Those little characters who, during the 19th and 20th centuries, walked among machinas, birles, hurrias and cabbage and who became an eternal icon.

As? What are those buzzwords? Pae, roll up your sleeve, gazuza, unravel, hurria, school,... ? Don't worry, don't let it be hard to read this; We have not forgotten to write well. You'll understand, when you come with us, that we Cantabrians don't have our own official language, but we're the best! And no, you won't need subtitles, which will make us understand each other very well.

What do you say, do you dare? Doesn't all of this make you a little sick ? We have a lot to guide you on this route and have a good time chachi-cinnamon.
By the way! Bring your furry friends to stretch their legs. We are 100% pet friendly!!