Cantabria

This guide offers the best information on Cantabria, fully updated and divided into four sections. The first of them contains a 1:800,000 scale road map with all the towns and places that appear in the guide. In the following section, Cantabria from A to Z, the most significant tourist attractions and natural spaces of the Cantabrian autonomous community are arranged alphabetically. Each description consists of fixed sections such as Info, Transport, Visit, Accommodation, Tapas, Restaurants, Cafes, Nightlife, Shopping, Parties... In the case of large cities, one or two plans are included (day and night) with the most interesting day and night areas for the traveller. The Sleep and Eat section is made up of a selection of hotels and restaurants chosen following a rigorous quality-price criteria. It will be easy to locate accommodation and restaurants on the maps of the towns that include it. In the Excursions through Cantabria section, an exhaustive tour of the best natural spaces in the region is made: Cabuérniga, Polaciones and the Saja-Besaya Natural Park; the western coast; the eastern coast; the regions between Pas and Miera; the sources of the Asón and the Gándara; the Ebro reservoir; the Picos de Europa and Valderredible. In the following section, entitled The Context, some notes on the history, daily life and customs of the region are recorded, as well as other interesting aspects related to Cantabrian culture. The practical nature of this guide is reinforced by its abundant cartographic information: 9 maps and 5 plans.