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Santemar
Joaquin Costa 28, Santander 39005
This hotel is located at the heart of Santander, within a short distance of the like-named bay. The hotel's central location adjacent to the casino means that it is only a stone's throw from an array of shopping and entertainment venues. The wonderful Playa del Sardinero lies just a few minutes walk away and it is 3.5 km to the main train station. The nearest links to the public transport network are a few paces away and transfer to the airport, which lies approximately 12 km away, takes roughly 20 minutes.
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Occidental Hoyuela
De Los Hoteles 7, Santander 39005
This hotel is located beside the Gran Casino and the Plaza de Italia in the Sardinero, a wealthy district of Santander, and affords architecture that blends harmoniously into its surrounds. Links to the public transport network are to be found in the vicinity and it is just a short drive to Parayas airport as well as the train station. Guests will discover an abundance of shopping venues, restaurants, bars and nightclubs around 1.5 km away.
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Santander -- Turism
Santander is a city in which the mixture of its various vocations, seafaring, commercial and tourism traditions, remains patent. The city's origin is related to the Portus Victoriae founded by the Romans. However, the capital's urban development was not to come about until the XI c. when the town began to grow around the San Emeterio abbey. From its Latin name, Sancti Emeterii, comes the current name of Santander.
During the XVIII and XIX centuries, the city became a key trading port for the maritime routes between Castile and the American colonies. From around the middle of the XIX century, Santander became one of the most exclusive summer tourist destinations on the northern coast of the Iberian peninsula.
The Paseo de Pereda, with its typical houses with miradors, and its gardens constitutes a lively boulevard which separates the coastal strip from the historic quarter of Santander. The nearby Cathedral is one of the oldest buildings in the capital, its earliest construction dating from the XIII c. Inside you can see the tomb of Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo, a work by the sculptor Victorio Macho. Under the main chapel is the crypt of El Cristo, a sombre vaulted chamber in which various traces of the Roman era were discovered.
Opposite the cathedral is the Plaza Porticada, in Neoherreran style surrounded by several public buildings. You find yourself at a major crossroads of lively commercial streets such as Arrabal or el Cubo.
One of these streets leads to the plaza del Generalísimo, site of the Town Hall, next to the popular market of la Esperanza, in the modernist style. Your visit has to continue through the Fine Arts Museum and the Menéndez Pelayo Stately Home, a building which has been declared an Historic-Artistic Site.
In the part of Santander where there is most tourism is El Sardinero. Opposite this famous beach you can enjoy one of the most beautiful promenades in Spain, with magnificent buildings such as the Gran Casino, which evokes the architecture of the Belle Époque. The Plaza de Italia, with its elegant, lively summer terraces, and the Piquío Gardens, which are situated on a rocky inlet marking the separation between the two beaches of El Sardinero, complete the picture.
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