cantabria history

• The Greening of Spain

Green Spain. It trips off the tongue easily in both languages, but sounds strange. Isn't Spain the land of the dusty, sun-baked plain? As it turns out, a lesser known Spain, the northern provinces that line the country's Atlantic coast and crowd up to the Pyrenees, does indeed live up to the green sobriquet, in more ways than one. It's verdant, yes, but also green as in ecologically advanced. IF it weren't for the Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim Museum, who would go to [Bilbao]? We did because it was our port of departure from Spain. And while it's true the largest city in the northern Spain has a gritty, industrial side to it, it also proved to be more visitor-friendly than expected.

... prosperous than at any time in its recent history. The Franco era has receded to distant memory, and...,000 metres, straddling the provinces of Cantabria and Asturias. . We stayed at an inn in Fuente D, a...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 21, 2009