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Cantabria

Santillana del Mar

Santillana del Mar is a picturesque town of 4200 people in Cantabria, , renowned for its medieval architecture. The village is a bit of a tourist trap, and is so swamped with new developments around the outskirts, that on arrival you might be forgiven for wondering what all the fuss is about.
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  • Type: Village with 902 residents
  • Description: municipality of Spain
  • Also known as: “39076”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cave of Altamira and National Museum and Research Center of Altamira.

Cave
Photo: Locutus Borg, Public domain.
The is a cave complex, located near the historic town of Santillana del Mar in , . It is renowned for prehistoric cave art featuring charcoal drawings and polychrome paintings of contemporary local fauna and human hands.

Museum
Photo: Alonso de Mendoza, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The , also known as Altamira Museum, is a center dedicated to the conservation of, research into, and the sharing of information about the in Santillana del Mar, Spain, named a World Heritage Site by Unesco.

Church
Photo: Luis Fermín TURIEL PEREDO, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Collegiate church and cloister of Santa Juliana is a collegiate church located in Santillana del Mar, . The church is dedicated to Juliana of Nicomedia. It is notable as an example of Romanesque architecture…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Puente San Miguel and Torrelavega.

Village
Photo: Pablo LaVegui, CC BY 2.0.
, is the capital of the municipality of in , , and its most important population center. It is located 55 kilometers from and is 41 meters. It is connected to Santander by the Feve company railway. is situated 4 km southeast of Santillana del Mar.

Town
Photo: Dolmanrg, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a municipality and important industrial and commercial hub in the single province Autonomous Community of , northern . It is situated roughly 8 kilometres from the Cantabrian Coast and 27.5 kilometres from the capital of the Autonomous Community, Santander, halfway between the and the . is situated 7 km southeast of Santillana del Mar.

Village
Photo: Asotavento, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village.

Santillana del Mar

Latitude
43.3907° or 43° 23′ 26″ north
Longitude
-4.108° or 4° 6′ 29″ west
Population
902
Elevation
264 metres (866 feet)
Open location code
8CMQ9VRR+7Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 288260444
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
6360721
Wiki­data ID
Q493817
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Waray—“Santillana del Mar” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Santillana del Mar”
  • Arabic: “سانتايلانا ديل مار”
  • Arabic: “شنت جليانة”
  • Aragonese: “Santillana del Mar”
  • Asturian: “Santillana del Mar”
  • Basque: “Santillana del Mar”
  • Belarusian: “Сантыльяна-дэль-Мар”
  • Catalan: “Santillana del Mar”
  • Cebuano: “Santillana del Mar”
  • Chechen: “Сантильяна-дель-Мар”
  • Chinese: “Santillana del Mar”
  • Chinese: “滨海桑蒂利亚纳”
  • Chinese: “濱海桑蒂利亞納”
  • Czech: “Santillana del Mar”
  • Dutch: “Santillana del Mar”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سانتايلانا ديل مار”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سانتييانا ديل مار”
  • Esperanto: “Santillana del Mar”
  • French: “Santillana del Mar”
  • Galician: “Santillana del Mar”
  • Georgian: “სანტილიანა-დელ-მარი”
  • German: “Santillana del Mar”
  • Hebrew: “סנטיאנה דל מאר”
  • Hungarian: “Santillana del Mar”
  • Indonesian: “Santillana del Mar”
  • Interlingua: “Santillana del Mar”
  • Interlingue: “Santillana del Mar”
  • Irish: “Santillana del Mar”
  • Italian: “Santillana del Mar”
  • Japanese: “サンティリャーナ・デル・マル”
  • Japanese: “サンティリャナ・デル・マル”
  • Ladin: “Santillana del Mar”
  • Latvian: “Santiljana del Mara”
  • Latvian: “Santillana del Mar”
  • Lithuanian: “Santiljana del Maras”
  • Lombard: “Santillana del Mar”
  • Luxembourgish: “Santillana del Mar”
  • Macedonian: “Сантиљана дел Мар”
  • Malay: “Santillana del Mar”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Santillana del Mar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Santillana del Mar”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Santillana del Mar”
  • Persian: “سانتیانا دل مار”
  • Polish: “Santillana del Mar”
  • Portuguese: “Santillana del Mar”
  • Romanian: “Santillana del Mar”
  • Russian: “Сантильяна-дель-Мар”
  • Slovak: “Santillana del Mar”
  • Slovenian: “Santillana del Mar”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سانتیانا دل مار”
  • Spanish: “Santillana del Mar”
  • Swedish: “Santillana del Mar”
  • Tatar: “Сантильяна-дель-Мар”
  • Turkish: “Santillana del Mar”
  • Ukrainian: “Сантільяна-дель--Мар”
  • Ukrainian: “Сантільяна-дель-Мар”
  • Ukrainian: “Сантіяна-дель-Мар”
  • Uzbek: “Santillana del Mar”
  • Uzbek: “Santilyana del Mar”
  • Uzbek: “Santilyana-del-Mar”
  • Uzbek: “Сантиллана дел Мар”
  • Uzbek: “Сантиляна-дел-Мар”
  • Venetian: “Santillana del Mar”
  • Vietnamese: “Santillana del Mar”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Santillana del Mar”

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