01 Day 1b, Estación de Mogro - Santillana del Mar

AfterEstación de Mogro the landscape opens and you cycle through gently rolling countryside with small hamlets, apple orchards and chapels that appear unexpectedly by the road. The route avoids busy roads and seeks the peaceful hills. Santillana del Mar is the natural end of the day: stone houses, a Romanesque collegiate church and a village square where the afternoon slowly fades. One of the most beautiful villages of Cantabria, and you notice that in the silence of the narrow streets once the day visitors have gone.