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Cantabrian Maritime Museum

The Maritime Museum of Cantabria (MMC) is a museum dedicated to the dissemination of heritage maritime city located in Santander , in Cantabria , the edge of the bay . His funds, one of the most important and comprehensive the country, allow a global approach to marine biodiversity and the different ways of relating to the same of the men of the Cantabrian Sea through the centuries and multiple points of view.
The collections began to form in the eighteenth century , later enriched by such distinguished groups as the Free Institution of Education , the Nautical School of Santander , the Royal Dockyard Museum Guarnizo , the Spanish Institute of Oceanography and the Center for Studies Highlanders .

Museum of Prehistory and Archaeology of Cantabria

The Museum of Prehistory and Archaeology of Cantabria, is an institution specializing in archeology prehistoric located in the city of Santander , in Cantabria , Spain .The museum was created in 1926 by the Provincial Government of Santander , who commissioned its development direction and Jesus Carballo Garcia . At its inauguration attended Alfonso XIII . Had its first headquarters in the building of the Institute of Santander, currently Institute Santa Clara, passing in 1941 to the underside of the Provincial Government Palace, where he remained until today.

Pedro Velarde Square

Velarde Peter's Square, better known as arcaded square, is a central and busy square in central Santander , built in style neoclassical Herrera after the dreadful fire of 1941 destroyed most of the historic old city. He rose in the postwar period, was inaugurated in 1950 .The square was designed by architects Javier Gonzalez de Riancho , Rafael Huidobro and Valentine's Noval , following the models, after the Civil War , impose the state for public buildings. His image was inspired by the ancient customs of the eighteenth century , which was located in this area and disappeared after a fire in Santander in 1941 .

Palacio de La Magdalena

The Royal Palace of La Magdalena is located in the Magdalena peninsula opposite the island of Mouro ,in Santander , and was built between 1909 and 1911 , by subscription, to house the Spanish royal family . Work by architects Javier Gonzalez Riancho and Gonzalo Bringas Vega , is set in the place where he was an old fort de Santander, which guarded the entrance to the bay . It was furnished in 1913 , immediately going to be summer residence of King Alfonso XIII and his family, who occupied it regularly until the proclamation of the Second Republic . In 1914 the stables were designed by Gonzalez Riancho. They emulate a medieval English town of slopes steep peaked roofs, exposed wood trusses, etc.. In 1982 was declared a historic-artistic monument. Between 1993 and 1995 was rehabilitated by the city of Santander , according to project of Luis de la Fuente .

Faro de Cabo Mayor

Cabo Mayor lighthouse or beacon of Bella Vista is located in the municipality Cantabria in Santander.It is Located on the promontory of Cabo Mayor , north of the city of Santander, was ordered to build a rotating beacon by Royal Order of February 17, 1833. In this place existed before a Atalayon from which the ships made ​​signals, day and night . The lighthouse now opened six years later, on August 15, 1839.

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