Santillana del Mar

Santillana del Mar is 30 km far from Santander and it is an “alive museum” of a medieval village developed around the “Santa Juliana” collegiate church, although most of the houses were built between the XIV century and the XVIII one. The whole Santillana can only be visited on foot.
You can walk north through the village by Santo Domingo Street, that becomes soon two streets in a “Y” bifurcation: Juan Infante St., that leads to the Ramon Pelayo´s Square, and the other one called Carrera St. (also known as Cantón St. or Del Río St.). In the triangular square there are some of the most representative buildings: Barreda-Bracho´s Casona (XVIII; with a splendid shield) which is nowadays the “Parador Gil Blas” (a high-quality tourist hotel), Del Aguila y La Parra´s houses, the Town Hall, the Don Borja´s Tower (XIV; one of the noblest edifications in Santillana, owned by the Barreda family, where it is the “Fundacion Santillana”) and Merino´s Tower (XIV; fortified residence of the “merinos”, the old administrators of the sovereign properties). Cantón St. presents and excellent collection of “casonas” (the old typical houses owned by the rural nobility), from the XV to the XVII; it is necessary to mention among them the “Leonor de la Vega” gothic house (XV century), who was the mother of the first Santillana´s marquis, and the Villa´s house too (also known as “casa de los hombrones”, with a big coat of arms with two knights with moustache. At the end of the street you can find the “Colegiata” (Saint Juliana´s collegiate church), the most important religious monument of the Romanesque in Cantabria.
source:http://www.santillana-del-mar.com/english/guide.htm

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