Santander City Council Audio Guide Tour

Your ticket to Centro Botín is included on this self-guided audio walking tour of Santander. Please note that an audio tour inside Centro Botín is not provided with this bundle. After you visit Centro Botín, unpause this tour and follow the waterfront and historic center. Along the way, you’ll discover how Santander grew from a medieval port into a modern coastal city shaped by trade, faith, rebuilding, and its close relationship with the bay. You’ll pass some of Santander’s most important landmarks, including the Cathedral of Santander, Plaza Porticada, and the Paseo Marítimo and Los Raqueros, the much-loved bronze sculptures looking out over the bay. The tour finishes at the lift to Río de la Pila hill, where you can choose to continue to the viewpoint. Expect a rich mix of experiences: stepping from Renzo Piano’s bold cultural landmark into the older streets around the cathedral, tracing wartime memory underground, and strolling beside open water.

General admission allows you to know the Collection of the Botín Foundation by means of different presentations and visit the temporary exhibitions that take place in the iconic building by Renzo Piano. The center combines exhibition galleries with spaces for performances, education and civic events, so it is more than a museum in the narrow sense.

With environments that recreate the natural habitats of the animals inside, the Cabárceno Nature Park located near Santander is the perfect day out for the family to discover the beauty of nature and its creatures. Inside the park you can see more than 100 animal species in semi-freedom. The animals are free to roam and their natural instincts are uninhibited. If you want a taste of the wild, you'll find it in Cabárceno Nature Park. With over 20 km of roads that cross the park, you'll journey through different enclosures through wonderful gorges, peaceful lakes and suggestive rocky figures. The Parque de la Naturaleza de Cabárceno is designed for educational, cultural, scientific and recreational purposes, so you might learn a thing or two, too. In addition, throughout the park there are numerous parking areas and trails that allow you to appreciate nature's beauty. Discover the secrets of the animal, vegetable, and mineral world with numerous activities for the whole family.