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Casona Palacio La Real Labranza Villasevil

Villasevil deToranzo hotels

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Trekking, Horseback Riding

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Golf, Fishing

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Casona Palacio La Real Labranza Villasevil

Villasevil deToranzo - Cantabria

Countryside

Number of rooms: 14

There’s a local saying that when the Gods left earth this was the area they were last seen in. The elegant Villasevil is certainly located in a heavenly spot, right in the heart of Cantabria, in the valley near to the thermal waters and the rupestrian paintings of the Monte del Castillo caves. Peace and tranquillity go hand in hand here, so it’s a great place if you’re looking to get away from it all. The owner Maria Eugenia took over the place in 1998 from a state of dilapidation. Tastefully and with care she transformed it into the fine lodging that it is today whilst keeping to the typical Cantabrian style. The structure of the 19th century building remained intact, for as Maria Eugenia points out “I like to feel the past in the walls” Inside the eclectic decoration ranges from the classical (18th century pieces) to the modern (elegant 1940’s furnishings).

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In the western coast of Cantabria there are two of the most valuable cultural treasures you could find in this region: Santillana del Mar and the caves of Altamira.
Santillana del Mar, 30 kilometers from Santander, is an alive museum, with a medieval village developed around the Santa Juliana's colegiata, although most of its constructions correspond to the diverse architectural contributions of the XIV to the XVIII centuries. The historical-artistic group of Santillana cannot be visited other ways but on foot.

Approx. 2 kilometers from Santillana there is another great artistic treasure of Cantabria: the universally famous Caves of Altamira. Discovered in 1879 by Marcelino Sanz of Sautuola and his daughter María, they have been declared by UNESCO part of the Mandkind´s patrimony. The cave, 300 meters long, contains about 150 engravings, and it is a perfect artistic expression of the paleolithical man. The paintings are polichromed with the help of natural pigments that have been well conserved from the quaternary age; and the figures of bisons and deers are splendidous.

Santillana del Mar Zoo
Located nearby a water-course (next to the entrance of Santillana if you drive in from Puente San Miguel), it constitutes a biological complex where hundreds of species cohabitate in a singular environment; from the bison to the tiger and from reptiles to butterflies (whose enclosure is exuberant in vegetation and coloring).
Its didactic and investigating dimension is important, with several conservation and reproduction programs with species in danger of extinction.

In Santander
Magdalena Royal Palace
Cathedral and romanic crypt

Near Santander
Prehistoric Museum and the Altamira Cave

In Cantabria:
Influences brought by Mozarabic peoples (Christians who lived in the Arabic territories) are left in Cantabria, such as, from the X century, churches with decorative reminders of Muslim construction, like Santa María in Lebeña, San Román de Moroso, Helguera or San Martín de Elines. But in fact, at the end of this century, when the Christians had managed to reconquest and repopulate the meseta, Cantabria, now distanced from the centres of power (Kings of Leon and Counts of Castile), faded into the background.
In the XI and XII centuries, with the Europeanisation that the dynasty of Navarra and the Kings Alfonso VII and VIII of Castile brought, our valleys were filled with Romanesque churches. Four monasteries (Santillana del Mar, Santa Maria de Piasca, Cervatos, and San Martín de Elines) are some excellent examples of this style and they exercised the economic power and the influences of their respective estates and domains.
Art in the XVII-XIX centuries includes important Baroque churches that are adorned with altarpieces which are popular or from good workshops. At the end, with regarding that which is architectonic a neo-regionalism arose whose main representatives were Rucabado and Riancho.

The Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao.
Santillana del Mar
The Diocesan Museum Regina Coeli
Installed in the old dominico convent, today of clarisas order, with the purpose of conserving, studying and showing an important part of the artistic-religious patrimony of the Diocese.
It can be visited every day, (except Wednesday and the month of February) from 10 to 13 and 16 to 19. The price of the ticked includes a visit to the cloister of the Colegiata.

The Cloister of the Colegiata.
Its importance at a national level resides in how its sculpture shows a synthesis of the románica iconography: topics of oriental origin, fantastic animals, fear biblical, laymen, Arab and Norman geometric patterns and symbols of different vegetables.
The entrance is combined with the visit of the Diocesan Museum.

The Foundation Santillana
With headquarters in the tower of Don Borja, it organizes big exhibitions and cultural events through out the whole year, with special vocation for educational activities and the hispanoamerican culture.
The entrance is free.

The Museum Jesús Otero
Museum dedicated to the local sculptor Jesús Otero. In its three rooms there is a great number of his works, although in the garden there are several sculptures of more volume.
The entrance is free and it is closed on Mondays.

The Museum and Center of Investigation of Altamira
It contains an exhibition of didactic character about the rupestre art and the prehistory in Cantabria. The museum negotiates the visit to the caves, previous application (letter or fax).
The entrance is free and it is closed on Mondays.

The Museum of Art and Regional Ethnography
Located in the Houses of the Eagle and the Vine, it shows interesting samples of regional, national and internacional art.
The entrance is free and it is closed on Monday

Large house of the Tagle
Peculiar housing of the family Tagle.
In the lower plant they carry out temporary exhibitions.
Schedule: from July 1 to September 30 and during Holy Week, it is open from Tuesday to Sundays.

Museum El Solar.
It has got two exhibitions: one on the instruments of torture of the inquisition and another of poisonous animals.
Schedule: every day from 9.30 to 22 h.

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