If there is something that truly seduces, due to its extraordinary beauty and that fascinating prodigality with which Nature has seen fit to endow it, since the most remote antiquity, it is the Cantabrian Coast.
The Cantabrian, if we accept as valid the poetic theses of the Hindu poet, Rabindranath Tagore, could be considered, metaphorically speaking, as an artist something more than extraordinary, who has been modeling, with the infinite patience that the centuries grant, a coast based on to the sweet spell of his eternal song.
A coast full of bankruptcies, vertigo ravines, whose roots cling with unshakable determination to the depths of a sea, the Cantabrian Sea, which for millennia was a breeding ground for the most extraordinary legends and mythologies.
But it is also here, at the edge of those tectonic tears, where the traveler can contemplate the most picturesque little towns and fishing villages, as well as the most fantastic and pleasant beaches, which have little or nothing to envy those others of the Levant, rocked by calmer seas, such as the Mediterranean.
Laredo, located opposite Santoña, barely twenty kilometers from Castro Urdiales and the border with Euskalerría, is an ancient town and like many other ports in the Cantabrian Sea, it has also witnessed the incessant flow of history: it saw the Roman ships disembark. ; the arrival of flocks of Viking drakkars on looting and looting expeditions; Ships with the black and white banner of the Templar fleet and above all, ships from countless parts of Europe, which called in these ports with the holds loaded with that human wealth, the pilgrims, who came to pay their respects to the Apostle Santiago, challenging the harshness of the northern roads, but at least saving the threat posed by a Spain conquered by the Muslims.
La Salvé beach, apart from being the most important in Laredo, is also a beautiful beach, shaped like a shell - which is also, curiously, the symbol of pilgrims - that stands out, not only for its extraordinary breadth or magnanimity of its extensive sandy areas, but also, and this is important, for its cleanliness and its facilities, to the point of making it one of the most attractive and, in fact, most frequented beaches in Spain.
Its seaside promenade, in which in addition to the beauty of the sea, the observant traveler can also admire the fantastic modernist buildings, hanging on that wonderful emerald-colored background of its lavish mountains, is one of the largest and most beautiful in Cantabria.
And of course, apart from the famous Rose of the Winds, muse of the fishing peoples since the dawn of time, the tribute to the fishermen of the Cantabrian Sea, who although, today dwindled, their hard work was legendary during centuries.
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