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Santander is a city located in northern Spain, capital of the uniprovincial autonomous community of Cantabria and, in turn, of the homonymous municipality. With 171 951 inhabitants (2017), is the most populous city in the autonomous community. In addition, it is the head of the metropolitan area of ​​Santander, a conurbation of more than 300,000 inhabitants that extends around the bay of Santander. It is the provincial capital and also the capital of the northernmost autonomous community in Spain and one of the most important cities in the north of the country. The municipality limits to the north with the Cantabrian Sea, to the East with the homonymous bay, which also surrounds it by the south next to the municipality of Camargo and to the west it borders the municipality of Santa Cruz de Bezana. Its maximum level, located in Peñacastillo, is 139 meters above sea level, and its minimum level is at sea level.

Santander Bay is located in Cantabria and is the largest estuary on the north coast of Spain, with an extension of 22.42 km², a length of 9 km and a width of 5 km. Due to the influence of Santander and its metropolitan area, around it is concentrated almost half of the population of the region, so the anthropic pressure on this sheet of water is high.
The entrance to the bay is preceded by the cove of El Sardinero, where the island of Mouro is located. The access to its interior is made by a narrow passage of sea located between the peninsula of the Magdalena, in whose vicinity are the islet of the Tower and the island of the Horadada, and the sandy area of ​​El Puntal, a long longitudinal bar of Beaches and dunes that protect the calm internal waters of the bay.
The original morphology of the bay has undergone major changes in recent centuries. It is estimated that more than 50% of the initial extension of this has been filled, drying out an important area of ​​marshland destined for pastures, the expansion of the port of Santander and the creation of industrial, residential and service areas. For a few years, very specific actions have been carried out in those areas of high ecological value that can be recovered, integrating them back into the tidal dynamics (Alday marshes in Maliaño or the black and white marshes in El Astillero).

The Botín Foundation is a Spanish foundation based in the city of Santander (Cantabria), created by Marcelino Botín and his wife, Carmen Yllera, in 1964 and currently chaired by Javier Botín.
Also known as the Marcelino Botín Foundation, he works in Spain and Latin America by developing social programs, and exploring ways to detect creative talent that allow the generation of cultural, social and economic wealth.
The Botín Foundation has the Trends Observatory designed to deepen the knowledge of society, from where talent detection and development programs in the social and public sectors are promoted.

The Library and house-museum of Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo is located in the city of Santander, in Cantabria, (Spain). The library of around 42,000 volumes belonged in life to the famous writer, passing to his death at the city of Santander by testamentary decision.

The Delegation of Posts in the city of Santander, in Cantabria (Spain), is one of the best examples of the mountain regionalist style that characterized much of the Cantabrian architecture of the early twentieth century. Built with large blocks of masonry, it is an exempt building, rectangular and with a large central hall, around which the different units are organized. Its main facade, flanked by two polygonal towers, looks towards Alfonso XIII square and Pereda gardens. It was built in the 20s according to the plans of the architects Secundino Zuazo and Eugenio Fernández Quintanilla, and is one of the most typical works of those built before the fire of 1941.

The old Hospital of San Rafael was originally asylum, hospice and maternity or poor house, to finally become a clinical care center of importance for the city of Santander (Cantabria, Spain) during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its foundation in 1791 is linked to the action of Bishop Menéndez de Luarca. With the beginning of the activity of the Valdecilla Health House, the San Rafael hospital would close its doors definitively. At the present time in the building it locates the Parliament of Cantabria, in the Alta street (Cabildo de Arriba neighborhood) of the city of Santander.
There were two historical moments in which the San Rafael hospital was especially important for Santander. The first on the occasion of the War of Independence in the early nineteenth century, and the second for the explosion of the steamboat Cabo Machichaco in 1893, which caused 590 dead and 525 injured.

Los Jardines de Pereda is a public park in the city of Santander, in Cantabria (Spain). They are located on the land gained from the sea that were used as a port dock in 1805 and officially opened in 1905 coinciding with the celebration of an Exhibition of Arts and Industries. It is a very crowded space due to its centrality and its proximity to the promenade, as well as the Botín art center.
The gardens were dedicated to the Cantabrian novelist José María de Pereda. Stresses the sculpture to his person, made by Lorenzo Coullaut Valera. The engravings that are seen surrounding Pereda's bust represent scenes of his works.
The gardens are characterized by the trees of more than 200 trees as a whole that serve as shelter from September to March to thousands of small starlings, typical of the winter of Santander. There are specimens of magnolias, holly, palm trees, cedars, horse chestnuts, pines, boxwoods, yew trees, lime trees, flower apple trees.
With the construction in its surroundings of the Botín Center, a reform of the annexed gardens was carried out by the landscape architect Fernando Caruncho, which ended in 2014. After the renovation the Pereda gardens doubled their previous surface of 48,000 m², doubling the areas rooms and tripling the green areas, when part of the traffic on the Paseo de Pereda is buried through a tunnel.

The Church of La Anunciación or La Compañía de Santander (Cantabria, Spain), was declared a Site of Cultural Interest on November 11, 1992. It is the best example of Renaissance architecture in Cantabria, an architectural style with little implantation in the region. It is located on Juan de Herrera street, near the Plaza Porticada and the cathedral.