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Cantabria is an autonomous community and province in northern Spain with Santander as its capital city. It is called a comunidad histórica, a historic community, in its current Statute of Autonomy. It
Battle of La Rochelle. Castilian army, formed by Cantabrians from the Brotherhood of the Four Cities, defeated the English army, getting the control of the English Channel for the Crown of Castile.
A statue in Santander erected in honor of Cantabrian artillery captain Pedro Velarde y Santillán, hero of the Spanish war of independence, who died 2 May 1808, during the uprising against the French occupation of Madrid.
Cabo Mayor and entrance to the harbor, Santander
La Hermida
Asturias
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Asturias, officially the Principality of Asturias, is an autonomous community in northwestern Spain. It is coextensive with the province of Asturias and contains some of the territory that was part of
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…on the east by the Basque Country (province of Biscay), on the south by Castile and León (provinces of León, Palencia and Burgos), on the west by Asturias, and on the north by the Cantabrian Sea, which forms part of the Bay of Biscay. With a population of 593,623, it is the 4th least populous autonomous…
Roman thermae in Gijón
Processional Cross, ca. 1150–75, it comes from a 12th-century church fifty miles east of Oviedo. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Santa María del Naranco, ancient palace of Asturian kings, 842 AD. Many churches in Asturias are among the oldest churches of Europe, dating to the Early Middle Ages.
Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos