5 Days

CANTABRIA: PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

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THE REAL THING encourages you to go beyond the city and its spectacular landscapes, both by land and by sea, and to focus your visit on today’s art, with exclusive visits to see private collections of some of the most prestigious contemporary works in the region, which are also among the most renowned and important in Spain.

The experience in Cantabria is twice as unique: first you have the beauty and singularity of works of art by artists from different generations and places, where history and cultural references mix, conveying a great variety of ideas and sensations sure to enrich and delight us, and then you have the unparalleled views which surprise us with every step.

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Consejería de, Innovación, Industria, Turismo y Comercio Gobierno de Cantabria. Sociedad Regional de Cántabra de Promoción Turística.
The collections are located in magnificent locations, from buildings reflecting the most current aesthetic trends to impressive small medieval palaces, and they take us to cities like Santillana del Mar, a city which is itself much like a living medieval museum; Comillas, a historical and aristocratic town set on lows hills flanking its port; Santander and its bay, one of the world’s forty most beautiful places, which we will see by traveling a route that dates back to Roman times; and Selaya, in the heart of the Pasiego Valley, where grasslands extend to the edge of stone walls and houses.

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Consejería de, Innovación, Industria, Turismo y Comercio Gobierno de Cantabria. Sociedad Regional de Cántabra de Promoción Turística.
The culinary scene is bound to win over even the most discerning palates, and we will see how anchovies are processed and visit a company specializing in quesadas and sobaos pasiegos (types of traditional cakes from the region), two shining examples of Cantabrian gastronomy. Would you like to try a bite?