Free Tour Santander Novia Del Mar - your first contact with the most beautiful bay in the world

The perfect route to have a first contact with the capital of Cantabria , its history, its people, its traditions and with the orange umbrella guides, OFFICIAL, ACCREDITED AND 100% CÁNTABRIAN. They won't take you "to cuchus" but they will teach you, entertain and excite you like no other. Get ready, not to get to know Santander, but to live it as if you were from here.


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 people, the bank,... but also that of the seafaring life, the docks, sardines, fishermen, neteras 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, as you walk through and get to know each street and monument of one of the jewels of the Cantabrian Sea.

• 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 La Esperanza Market and see a sample of Santander's daily life, as well as local gastronomy; You'll see the gazuza that comes to you.

• With our mouths watering and in case someone has sinned from gluttony, we will go to mass. Not literally, but we will visit the Church of the Annunciation, the Cathedral of Santander and their surroundings, to learn about them in detail, how Santander "married" 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 , like the Cape Machichaco explosion or that disastrous Valentine's Day that led to the Great Fire of 1941. They love each other, but sometimes these two kill each other!!!

• 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 Pereda Gardens, the Plaza Porticada, the Plaza de Pombo or the Mercado del Este , some of the scenes of greatest growth and prosperity in the city. Emblematic places with a handful of illustrious people as narrators of the story.

• We already know a lot about Santander, but what better way to talk about your relationship with your lover than the lifelong neighbors. For this reason we will cross the neighborhood of El Arrabal , home of sailors and rederas, the most traditional streets of the city and where, if you close your eyes and concentrate, you can still feel the salt, the waves and the hustle and bustle of the boats.

• In the end, through the highs and lows, a long-standing relationship pays off. A tour of the docks of Santander, 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 cabbages and who became an eternal icon.

As? What are those words? A cuchus , gazuza, churrar, hurria, cole,... ? Don't worry, don't worry about reading this; We have not forgotten to write well. You will understand, when you come with us, that we Cantabrians may not have our own official language, but we are the best in words! What better than a local guide to put the subtitles on this movie.

What do you say, do you dare? Doesn't all this make you a little crazy ? We have a lot to guide you on this route and have a great time.

By the way! Bring your furry friends to stretch their legs. We are 100% pet friendly!!