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 Car Hire & Driving in Santander, SpainWelcome to Santander Car Hire, Spain, available at Santander Airport.Santander Car HireThe important modern port of Santander has been the provincial capital of Cantabria since the 18th century when the French plundered the coastal area to the east, and Santander is a great place to start an exploration of Cantabria and Asturias in your hire car. Santander city centre, rebuilt after much of Santander was destroyed by a fire in 1941, looks south across a beautiful protected bay. On a clear day you can see the snow capped peaks of the Cordillera Cantabrica from the busy quay at Santander. A good time to visit Santander in your hire car is during July or August, when Santander hosts an international festival of music, dance and drama. In Santander there are many fine beaches that you can visit in your hire car, which all join together at low tide. The older residential and resort quarter of Santander is called El Sardinero, which you can explore in your hire car and faces out to sea over Santander’s beaches. In this area of Santander too are the Grand Casino del Sardinero, the International Menendez Pelayo University and the large old0fashioned resort hotel, the Hotel Real, all of which you can explore in your hire car while in Santander. A short drive in your hire car from Santander is the Peninsulade La Magdalena where you can explore the neo-Gothic summer palace of the royal family in your hire car. An imitation of Balmoral built by Alfonso XIII in 1912 for his English queen, it is now part of the International University and worth visiting in your hire car while in Santander. In Santander you can visit the Museo de Bellas Artes, which you will find on the Calle Rubio in your hire car, west of the Plaza Porticada in Santander. Santander’s museum shares a building with the library donated by the Santander literary scholar, Marcelino Menendez y Pelayo, whose statue you will see in the garden in your hire car. Santander’s museum has an interesting small collection ranging from Zurbaran to contemporary Cantabrian artists, which you can visit in your hire car while in Santander. Another museum to visit in your hire car in Santander is the Museo de Prehistoria y Arqueologia, which you will find in the Diputacion Provincial in your hire car near the Puerto Chico in Santander, where fishing boasts are moored, providing and insight in to the Lower-Palaeolithic cave art found in the Cantabria and Asturias region around Santander. The resorts of Santillana del Mar and Comillas on the coast west of Santander in your hire car are crowded in summer with well-heeled Spaniards from further south. This is an agreeable area of first rate beaches, pretty farms overlooking the sea, medieval and Renaissance churches and balconied, galleried and escutcheoned granite Golden Age palaces or town houses, all for you to explore in your hire car while on a trip in your hire car from Santander. To the east of Santander in your hire car, at Laredo, the long, sandy beach attracts so many summer visitors that the off-season population of over 10,000 will have multiplied by a factor of 10 by mid-August. This explains the high-rises and summer houses that follow the curve of the beautiful beach, as you will see in Laredo while on a trip from Santander in your hire car. Across Santona Bay from Laredo in your hire car, further east of Santander, is the port and resort of Santona. It has a church begun in the 13th century, which you can visit in tour hire car while on a trip from Santander and several beaches, including the splendid 1 mile (2km) long Playa de Nueva Berria, which should definitely be explored in your hire car while in Santander. To the south of Santander, moving in land in your hire car, there are networks of local roads that will enable you to explore the beautiful countryside of the Cantabria and Asturias region of Spain in your hire car from Santander. Santander-Parayas Airport Car HireSantander has an airport in the nearby village of Parayas. Santander-Parayas Airport lies 2 miles (4km) from Santander in your hire car. Santander-Parayas Airport sees over 200,000 passengers through a year and is open from 05:30 to 19:30 during the summer and between 06:30 and 20:30 in the winter. At Santander-Parayas Airport there is plenty of parking for your hire car, should you need to leave your hire car at Santander-Parayas Airport. Santander-Parayas Airport has all the facilities that you would expect to find at an airport. Santander-Parayas Airport only has domestic flights, mainly to and from Barcelona and Madrid. We also provide hire cars in Barcelona and Madrid. For more information visit our Barcelona Car Hire and Madrid Car Hire links. Spain Car HireSpain. To the ancient Greeks, Spain was the land where Hercules’ golden apples grew; to the Arabs, Spain was the ground floor of heaven; to writers such as George Orwell and Ernest Hemingway, Spain was an area where history skittered between heroic feats and tragedy, and bullfighters flirted with death in work of an afternoon. Few other places so dramatically stimulate the imagination as Spain, as you will be able to discover in your hire car. Despite the steady traffic from Spain’s coastal resorts, Spain has remained in the eyes of outsiders a mysterious, half-mythical country. Spain’s long stretches of isolation from the rest of Europe began with Spain’s peninsular geography and were underscored by history. 700 years of Moorish occupation, were followed by a powerful empire that colonised the New World, the failure of which led via the Spanish Civil War 1936-9 to the oppressive regime of General Franco, all of which have left their mark of Spain, as you will be able to discover while touring in your hire car. However years of isolations for Spain has made it far from homogeneous. Spain embraces four languages and around seven dialects, and climate ranges go from the Subtropical south, sweet with its mangos ,and hibiscus, to the emerald north, with its gorse and heather and plunging fjords, providing you with so much choice of country side to investigate while touring Spain in your hire car. During your trip to Spain you will find some constants while in your hire car. One is light, the glorious sunshine that northern Europeans flock to bask in; but don’t make a mistake of just lying by the pool while, with so much to see and do, take advantage of the glorious light to tour the sights in your hire car. The other constant is a tremendous vitality, which you can observe in cafes and strolling Sunday evening crowds, in haughty urbanites and exuberant fiesta crowds while touring Spain in your hire car. Spain covers an area of 194,885 square miles (504,880sq km) with its capital, Madrid, situated almost in the centre. The Kingdom of Spain is a constitutional monarchy under King Juan Carlos I of the House of Bourbon, which has been on the Spanish throne since the death of Franco in 1975. Spain is divided into 17 autonomous regions, each with its own legislature. Spain is a member of the European Union, accepting the euro as its currency in 2002; the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. Foreign motorists must have either an international driving licence from their country of origin and this also applies when using a hire car, so make sure your driving licence is packed before you leave for Spain. Spain has about 195,850 miles (317,000km) of highway for you to explore in your hire car; however only a few thousand kilometres of them are fast, convenient and relatively safe motorways. There are toll fees payable if using the modern motorways in your hire car while, which have rest areas, bars and service stations, and roadside telephones are also places at convenient intervals, to enable you to call for assistance in the case of emergency or breakdown in your hire car. The speed limits while driving in your hire car are 120kph (75mph) on motorways, 100kph (60mph) on all other roads and 60kph (35mph) when driving through cities and towns. In Spain seatbelts must be worn by the driver and all passengers in your hire car, and your hire car should be quipped with a spare set of head and rear-light bulbs or you could face a penalty fine. To hire ca car you have to be at least 19 years of age with either an international licence or a valid licence from your own country. With so much varied countryside around Spain it’s recommended to have a hire car to really be able to explore Spain’s full potential without having to worry about public transport. A hire car will also enable you to investigate the more remote areas of Spain where public transport may not be readily available. Cantabria and Asturias region Car HireFew parts of Spain have greater natural beauty than Cantabria and Asturias as you will discover in your hire car. Cantabria and Asturias are where sandy beaches and rocky headlands are backed by the soft greens and greys of the rugged landscape; a particularly beautiful region of Spain to explore in your hire car. The autonomous regions of Cantabria and Asturias lie between the Basque Country and Galicia regions of Spain, along the Bay of Biscay. There are 72 beaches in Cantabria for you to visit in your hire car while, stretching east to west from Castroline in Asturias. The Picos de Europa rises to over 8,660ft (2,640meters) and are the highest mountains in the Cordillera, which begin in Cantabria and almost completely cover Asturias. In fact the Picos de Europa is a fantastic sight to see in your hire car while in the Cantabria and Asturias regions, as the highest peaks are covered in snow even in summer. These tall peaks make the views over the Cantabria and Asturias region a beautiful place to explore in your hire car while.
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