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Getting to Cantabria

By plane

Santander (Parayas) Airport has regular flights to and from the following destinations:

• Iberia:Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Valencia, Alicante, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Malaga, Palma de Mallorca
• Ryanair: Rome-Ciampino, London-Stansted, Frankfurt-Hahn, Milan-Bergamo, Dublin, Madrid, Reus (Barcelona)

New routes are planned for 2009, linking Santander to Brussels, Paris and Dusseldorf.
There is a bus service every 15 minutes connecting the airport and the city centre, plus a taxi service and four car rental offices. The city centre is 5km from the airport.

For further airport information visit www.aena.es

By ferry

Brittany Ferries links Santander and Plymouth with a twice-weekly service beginning around the middle of March and running until mid-November. From the middle of March until April on Mondays and Thursdays and from mid-April until November, Tuesdays and Thursdays

Telephone: (34) 942 36 06 11

By bus/coach

Bus Station: A wide range of companies and routes connect Santander with the main Spanish ad European cities.

Telephone: (34) 942 211 995

Once in Santander, you will find there are 19 city bus lines linking the different areas of the city.

By train

Santander has two train stations with trains reaching different destinations:

• RENFE: Regional: Barcena de Pie de Concha, Las Caldas del Besaya, Las Fraguas, Los Corrales de Buelna, Reinosa, Renedo de Pielagos, Torrelavega
  National: Alicante, Avila, Cordoba, Madrid, Malaga, Palencia, Valladolid
  Telephone: (34) 902 240 202
• FEVE:Regional: El Astillero, Cabezon de la Sal, La Cavada, Lierganes, Maliaño, Torrelavega, Unquera
  National: Bilbao, Oviedo
  Telephone: (34) 942 209 522
  

By car

The Cantabrico Motorway (A-8) joins Cantabria and the Basque Country, France and the rest of continental Europe to the east and Asturias and Galicia to the west.

Leaving Cantabria to get to Madrid and the centre of the peninsula, one option is the N-623 road going through Burgos via the El Escudo mountain pass, or the N-611 (A-67) which passes through the provinces of Palencia and Valladolid. The latter has long stretches of dual carriageway in Cantabria.