Tours & Activities in Santander
Due to seniority, experience and know-how of our team, the "most best" perfect route to have a first contact with the capital of Cantabria , its history, its people, its traditions and with the orange umbrella guides: OFFICIAL, ACCREDITED AND CANTABRIAN 100%. They won't take you "to cuchus" but they will teach you, entertain and excite you like no other. Get ready, not to get to know Santander, but to live it as if you were from here.
Welcome to Santander, the so-called "most beautiful bay in the world".
That of the idyllic landscape, the beaches, the aristocracy of El Sardinero, the illustrious characters, the bank,... but also that of the seafaring life, the docks, sardines, fishermen, neteras and raqueros.
A city of many faces and contrasts that has always been and will be "La Novia Del Mar". Join us in this "love-hate" story, capable of overshadowing Romeo and Juliet, as you walk through and get to know each street and monument of one of the jewels of the Cantabrian Sea.
- Our tour will begin in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento , in the heart of the city, where we will whet your appetite to go to the Mercado de La Esperanza and see a sample of daily life in Santander, as well as local gastronomy. You'll see how much fun you get.
- With our mouths watering and in case someone has sinned from gluttony, we will go to mass. Not literally, but we will visit the Church of the Annunciation, the Cathedral of Santander and its surroundings, to learn about them in detail, how Santander "married" the sea and how this is shown in the streets we walk on. This city teaches much more than it seems!!!
- But every relationship has its moments of crisis. With the Plaza de Alfonso Disastrous Valentine's Day that led to the Great Fire of 1941. They love each other, but sometimes they kill each other!!!
- It's not all drama here. The expansion is the result of the best and most beautiful moments of this peculiar couple. We are going to drop by the Pereda Gardens, the Plaza Porticada, the Plaza de Pombo or the Mercado del Este , some of the scenes of the greatest growth and prosperity in the city. Emblematic places with a handful of illustrious people as narrators of the story.
- We already know a lot about Santander, but who better to know the gossip of the couple than the lifelong neighbors. For this reason we will cross the neighborhood of El Arrabal , home of sailors and rederas, the most traditional streets of the city and where, if you close your eyes and concentrate, you can still feel the screams, the salt, the waves and the hustle and bustle of the boats.
- In the end, with the best and worst moments, a long-standing relationship pays off. A tour of the docks of Santander, along Paseo Pereda , will serve as the best show of the city's relationship with the Cantabrian Sea and to introduce the couple's churumbeles: the Raqueros . Those little characters who, during the 19th and 20th centuries, were among machinas, birles, hurrias and cabbages and who became an eternal icon.
As? Have you noticed it? What are those dirty words? A cuchus , gazuza, hurria, cole,... ? Don't worry, don't worry about reading this. You will understand, when you come with us, that we Cantabrians have a peculiar vocabulary and our words are the most authentic. What better than a local guide, from the usual La Tierruca, to put the subtitles on this film so that you understand every detail of our way of being.
What do you say, do you dare? Doesn't all this make you a little crazy ? We have a lot to guide you on this route and to have as much fun together as sparrows in a quagmire.
By the way! Bring your furry friends to stretch their legs. We are 100% pet friendly!!
Relive one of Santander's biggest catastrophes and how the city resurfaced after "El Siniestro", the great fire that changed everything forever that February 1941. February 15, 1941, night falls. Throughout the day a gale has risen that has grown to be almost a hurricane. A glow in the horizon of roofs begins to draw the attention of the population and the alarms in the streets sound ... The great fire of Santander has been unleashed, nothing will be the same again. Discover with Experienta the history of this event that changed Santander, in which much of the city was reduced to ashes and how this modified its structure and the way of life of the people of the place, to become as we know it today. Enjoy a different itinerary through the less known side of the center of Santander, through the most representative monuments and icons of the urban center, from a "catastrophic" point of view as well as instructive. Feel as if you were an inhabitant of the time under the explanations of a guide involved and willing to give you a fun visit in which nothing else you have to worry about enjoying the activity without risk of being devoured by the flames. We promise you that you will never see the city of Santander with the same eyes.
On this free tour you will discover one of the most emblematic and stately areas of Santander. Visit the Magdalena Peninsula , where the impressive palace of the same name is located and the beach area of El Sardinero , an ancient seaside resort area of the capital of Cantabria.
The visit begins at the access to the Peninsula, to see the area of the old polo field, the stables and the exterior of the imposing Magdalena Palace and its surroundings, which offer privileged views of the coast. Within the Peninsula we will also visit the Vital Alsar Museum : Man and the Sea and their expeditions, in addition to the mini zoo, where we can admire the colony of seals and penguins that live there.
We will continue to El Sardinero, an old spa area, created in the mid-19th century, where we can visit the Casino, the Gran Hotel Sardinero or the Finca los Pinares, ending the visit in the Piquío Gardens . Reserve now!
