Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Cantabria
Detourmap lists 45 places in Cantabria, Spain, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Cave of Altamira. 35 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 45
- Oldest
- Cave of Altamira 13000 BC
- Little known
- 35 of 45
- Share of Spain
- 2%
Cantabria 45
All 45, best known first.
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14.National Museum and Research Center of Altamira
Nature · 21st century · Hidden gem
Paleolithic museum in Spain
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24.Cave of El Haza, Ramales de la Victoria
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Cultural property in Ramales de la Victoria, Spain
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42.Museo Etnográfico de Cantabria
Archaeological · 20th century · Hidden gem
Cultural property in Camargo, Spain
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43.Biblioteca y casa-museo de Menéndez Pelayo
Archaeological · 20th century · Hidden gem
Library in Spain
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45.Beares
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Human settlement in Camaleño, San Vicente de la Barquera, Cantabria, Spain
Elsewhere in Spain
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Cantabria?
Cave of Altamira, 130th century BC. Cave with prehistoric paintings in Spain. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Cantabria?
45: 36 nature & landscapes and 9 archaeological & historic sites. 35 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Cantabria?
Cave of Altamira, dated to 13000 BC. 4 of the 45 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Cantabria here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Cantabria if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Cantabria is a first-level division of Spain, the same level as a state or a province.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.