Cantabria
Sitting on the north coast of Spain between Asturias and the Basque Country, Cantabria is a gentle, lush land and it is difficult to believe it takes its name from the Cantabri, a Celtic people whom the Romans considered the fiercest in the entire Iberian Peninsula. It is less well known than most of Spain, has some first-class attractions for visitors, and is easier to reach than ever before.
With a surface of 5.300 square kilometers Cantabria offers extremely varied landscapes and climates. In its mountain ranges, Picos de Europa and the natural preserve of Saja, still live bears, wolves and eagles, and the rivers are full of salmons and trouts. Pico de tres Mares ("peak of the three seas") is a real curiosity: a drop of water that falls here may equally arrive to Atlantic Ocean, by Duero river, the Cantabric Sea, by Nansa river, or the Mediterranean Sea by Ebro river.