PICOS DE EUROPE INTERPRETATION CENTRE "PEDRO PIDAL
Read moreDocumentation, mock-up of the hiking areas, audiovisual room, this reception centre has a mass of information on the national park. More complete than the office of Cangas de Onis, it is a real museum on the Peaks of Europe. He is named according to Pedro Pidal, marquis de Odón, who, in 1916, invented the concept of a national park as a protected space and is the origin of Spain's first national park, the Covadonga mountain national park.
FOUNTAIN OF LOS CAÑOS DE SAN FRANCISCO
Fountain with 6 heads still the symbol of the cityRead more
PLAZA RAMÓN PELAYO
A remarkable square with Gothic and Renaissance palaces in Santillana.Read more
SOBRELLANO PALACE
Beautiful works of art in a neo-Gothic palace in Comillas.Read more
COVALANA CAVE
Read moreCertainly the most moving rock paintings on the Iberian Peninsula. While the gallery is smaller than in other caves and smaller paintings, they have been imagined and realized not as isolated drawings but as a true work of art thought with subjects communicating with each other and with the visitor as the latter moves into the cave. The light games and the shapes of the walls are studied to give the best effects of movements and the best possible prospects. It is really great art that you are advised to discover on a guided tour so that you don't lose much of the details that make Covalanas a special cave. The narrow gallery imposes small groups, 7 or 8 people, which encourages contact with works as with the guide. Rarely you will have the opportunity to be so close to original paintings in such a good state of conservation!
The cave is 2.5 km from the city center. A very pleasant hiking trail allows you to walk there on foot with a little more than 200 m. It's a good way to take the time to discover the beautiful panoramas surrounding the cave. It is believed that many populations inhabited caves in the prehistoric era. A total of 14 caves adorned with paintings or engravings were found in the vicinity.
Covalanas is a space entirely dedicated to painting, some kind of prehistoric cinema or museum. Research actually showed that the places of habitation were lower on the mountain, and only paint tools were found in the cave itself. The artist or artists came here only to exercise their art, for the purpose that we still do not know. In any case, they painted in a place where the only way to see the paintings was to bring the light. At 65 meters from the entrance of the cave, the gallery was actually plunged into the darkness, and lighting lamps had to contribute to giving movement effects to the represented animals.
The paintings would be 7,000 years more than Altamira bison and Lascaux mammoths. Animals represented here are deer and biches, animals placed very high in mammalian pantheon depicted on Hispanic walls. The technique used is that of pointillism: you will notice that the strokes are not full but made up of points of points obtained by affixing the thumb, coated with manganese oxide, on the wall. There are twenty figures, including a bison and a horse, all of which are biches or deer. While it is difficult of course to interpret the will of the artist, you will notice that the overall schema answers a plan and the choice of locations is not insignificant. Animals seem to look at us, get away or get closer to us, depending on where we are in the gallery, without any failure in the plot. At some distances, the biches of the entrance to the gallery may sound real, as the guet while the others already run on our arrival. The motives of Covalanas' artist will certainly never be known, and if the cave visit does not provide answers, it has at least the merit of prompting us to question the meaning of these paintings and the message they give us.
COLLEGIATE CHURCH OF SANTA JULIANA
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CASTILLO DEL REY
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PARK OF MONTE BUCIERO: FORTS OF SANTOÑA
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PALACIO MUSEO DE ELSEDO
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UNIVERSIDAD PONTIFICIA COMILLAS
University in a modern neo-Gothic building in Comillas.Read more
CATEDRAL DE OURENSE
Read moreConsidered the last high example of Romanesque art in the west, it dates from the 13th century. The narthex (north doorway) was sculpted at that time on the model of the portico of Glory - enough to fill compostellan nostalgic style. The bright polychrome covering the apostles dates from the 17th and 18th centuries. The interior, marked by the Baroque architecture, has a beautiful Gothic retable. Also watch, behind the choir, amazing sculpted wooden crucifix, where a romanesque Christ is sacred, like a medieval king.
MUSEUM OF THE CATHEDRAL OF OURENSE
Read moreThe museum contains a collection of sacred art, in the unfinished cloister of the cathérale, known as the Confined Nova. You can discover here including the box reliquary of San Martin (18th century) or the treasure of San Rosendo.
IRATI FOREST
Natural site of great ecological richness in Orbaitzeta with 3 protected ...Read more
FOZ DE LUMBIER
Narrow gorge with 150 m high walls, classified as a nature reserve in ...Read more
FOZ DE ARBAYÚN
Vertiginous gorge with 6 km long and 300 meters high walls in Lumbier ...Read more
AZKUNA ZENTROA (LA ALHÓNDIGA)
A 43,000 m² complex for temporary exhibitions, sports facilities, a media ...Read more
PLAZA DE LA CONSTITUCIÓN
The scene of the great annual celebrations, the neoclassical square in the ...Read more
BILBAO GREETERS
Cultural association offers visitors the opportunity to discover Bilbao, ...Read more
OFFICE DE TOURISME DE BILBAO
Tourist office near the Guggenheim Museum with comprehensive tourist ...Read more
MERCADO DE LA RIBERA
An eclectic building located on the edge of the river, which houses one of ...Read more
MUSEO EUSKAL HERRIA
Museum of artistic reproductions presenting a collection of reproductions ...Read more
PUERTO VIEJO (OLD PORT)
The old port of Bermeo has several sculptures of maritime inspiration, such ...Read more
CABO MAYOR
Wide natural promontory in Santander offering a bucolic walk to enjoy the ...Read more
MAGDALENA PENINSULA
A pleasant peninsula with an open-air zoo and a remarkable museum in ...Read more
CENTRO BOTÍN
This center exhibits contemporary art collections from the Fundación ...Read more
HOSTAL DOS REIS CATÓLICOS
Hostal with an imposing facade decorated with a magnificent plateresque ...Read more
MONTE IGUELDO
Sunday pilgrimage site converted into a leisure park, located at the ...Read more
PLAZA NUEVA
Plaza Nueva is a place for many popular events, such as the traditional ...Read more
ABANDO ESTACIÓN
Classical style train station in the city center on the old Spanish square, ...Read more
MEDIAEVAL CITY
Read moreIn the medieval city you can see the Gothic Church, Gothic style, built in the th century on the ruins of the old alcazar, as well as the bridge of the same name. The old medieval quarter also houses the museum of sacred art, located in the convent of the Incarnation of the Incarnation, and the Ribera market, in an eclectic style with many stained glass windows, and known for its excellent seafood and fish flows.
EL CAPRICHO DE GAUDÍ
A remarkable villa in Comillas, a jewel of modernist architecture.Read more
CIUDAD VIEJA
Old bastion near the church of Sant Francisco with a splendid panoramic ...Read more
TOWER OF HERCULA
Lighthouse classified as a World Heritage Site with a staircase of 235 ...Read more
PEINE DE LOS VIENTOS
Sculpture made by Eduardo Chillida and Luis Pena, composed of three ...Read more
LAS SIETE CALLES
This tangle of small alleys formed the heart of the city's commercial ...Read more
MUSEO DE BELLAS ARTES DE BILBAO
Museum presenting important collections of paintings, engravings, ...Read more
SAN TELMO MUSEOA
Museum that occupies a former Dominican convent, a place to discover the ...Read more
CITY TOUR DONOSTIA
Agency offering a ride on a small train to visit tourist sites and ...Read more
HISTORIC NEIGHBORHOOD
Historic district in Laguardia offering a tour through one of the many ...Read more
MUSEO DE ARTE SACRO / ELEIZ MUSEOA
Museum with the most important religious works in Bizkaia from the ...Read more
HISTORIC NEIGHBORHOOD
Palace where you can find many houses and palaces and one in stone in honor ...Read more
MUSEO VASCO DEL FERROCARRIL
Museum that presents one of the most complete railway collections in Europe ...Read more
PALACIO REAL DE OLITE
Palace divided into 3 parts in Olite with Gothic arches, patios, galleries, ...Read more
EL MIRADOR DE ARTXANDA
Mirador located at 250 meters of altitude, offering a privileged view of ...Read more
IGLESIA DE SAN ANTÓN
Gothic church built at the end of the 15th century on the banks of the ...Read more
BASILICA SANTA MARÍA DEL CORO
Basilica of baroque style in the Parte Vieja, the statue of Saint Sebastian ...Read more
ZURRIOLA BEACH
Beach located in front of the Gros district, the meeting place of surfers ...Read more
OFFICE DE TOURISME DE SAN SEBASTIÁN
Tourist office with a very professional welcome, located on Alameda ...Read more
IGLESIA DEL SANTÍSIMO CRISTO
Church preserving the foundations of an ancient Roman domus in Santander.Read more