Activities in Santander
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Walking Tour of Santander
If you'd like to take a self-guided tour, or simply an informal wander, begin within the stately Plaza Porticada, which is surrounded by 64 porticoes.
Proceed down past the post office to the cathedral. Below it, amid a traffic circle, a poignant sculpture recalls the devastation of the 1941 fire. To the east spreads the lovely Jardines de Pereda, named after the Cantabrian writer José María de Pereda, whose seminal work, Escenas Montañesas, is illustrated in bronze and stone here. Opposite the park you'll see the 1950s Banco de Santander building, one of the country's major financial institutions. Going through its grand archway you enter the old quarter. Proceed thro…
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Escuela de Surf Santander
Surfers emerge in force along El Sardinero when the waves are right. Playa de Somo, across the bay, can also be good. Three or four shops on Calle de Cádiz and Calle Méndez Núñez sell boards and wetsuits. The Escuela de Surf Santander is a surf school (€50 for two hours' private tuition) with boards for rent (€6 per hour).
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Bay Tours, Estación Marítima Los Reginas
This boat station runs one-hour bay tours (around €7) daily in summer (on weekends April to June) and a year-round passenger ferry to Somo (with another sandy beach), just beyond Playa del Puntal.
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