
The interior designer of Cantabria, Paco Entrena, and his daughter, Silvia, run this old palatial home with imagination and talent. Both receive guests with ease, proposing a museum-like tour of the house and allowing them to personally select their bedrooms when possible. Yellow, fuchsia, white, blue… Each bedroom boasts a different color and atmosphere. Well put together, the rooms reve...


Sited in front of the Sardinero Beach, where Santander´s finest hotel industries were concentrated in the early 20th century, Hotel Hoyuela looks as though it has been there for a lifetime. The building’s garden court architectural style is found immersed in the ambiance of grand old belle époque that characterizes the establishments along the Avenue of the Hotels. A stroke ...



The main building is modern and inviting, featuring a mix of exposed stone, white window trims and metal details along the façade. From the outside this hotel is reminiscent of the grand English country manors, only with totally fresh feel, which was emphasized in the most recent additions carried out in August of 2003: 34 double bedrooms and a cafeteria with views of the lawns and mountains. The ...


This hotel has something, because the trimness of the rooms, the nominal service, the showy furniture and the stern feel of some bathrooms couldn’t do justice to its regal façade. What it has is a noble 14th-century mansion sited in the heart of Santillana del Mar. A palace built with fitted stone block walls, inside which the chime of the bells from the nearby school resounds like the cords of a ...

Native architecture reformed by architect Luis Castillo as an homage to the local culture at the end of the XIX century. Its facade still conserves its original blue coloring. Covadonga and Fátima, the sisters that run the hotel, have exercised extreme good taste and decorative creativity. Goat skin lamps with elaborate drawings stand out, as well as the bath screens made with acid washed glass an...

A Cantrabrian palace near the beaches of Somo and Loredo. Luxury in the gardens surrounding the mountain home and in it’s bedrooms, were the use of wood and stone stands out. More colorful in the suites and bedrooms, that are elegantly rustic....


An antique stone estate, with attics peaking out the tile roof, located in the town’s centre. Essentially rustic, it has a small sitting room with a brick fireplace and checkered upholstered sofas. The walls are painted with a birthday cake yellow color, the girders are in plane sight and the floor is made of sandstone. The bedrooms have the same style. The ones on the second story have attics, wi...

An estate built in 1690, made of wood and stone, delicately restored by notary Jesús Mantilla y his wife, Paloma López. Standing out is the fine metal work by cabinet-maker Tomás Sobaler in order to save the oak girders, and accentuate the wood in the interior of the building. The architect Cesar Cubillas has orchestrated the space redistribution and has adorned the facade with carefully cut stone...


A women’s boarding school in 1884 and adjacent to the XVIII century chapel of ‘Nuestra Señora del Carmen’, still open so visitors can admire and enjoy its walnut altar piece from 1726. The interior of the estate has antique furniture, handed down by the ancestors of the current owners, and have a cozy feel to them. The bedrooms are spacious, and the ceilings are propped up with wooden beams, based...



Once again the big city and it’s misbehaviors generate a lot of attractive hotel hot spots. This time we’re talking about a couple of Madridians, which isn’t the first time and definitely not the last that fed up with urban demons, retreated to the shores of the Cantabria. Specifically to a hundred year old estate, that is representative, with it’s square courtyard and three levels, of the Santade...


This ancestral building included in the hostelry catalog called Cantabria Infinita sleeps deeply in the Buelna Valley, located in the region of Besay. It is said that in this very palace, which was built over the early construction stages begun by García de Bárcena y Quijano Family in the 17th-century, Alfonso XII rested while in route to a cave in Hornos de la Peña that was an old lure in craggy ...


Built in 1872, this country estate with a Colonial Indianos style features a fitted stone block façade, as well as oak and chestnut trimmings. The bedrooms are spacious and prudently decorated, and each has been named after plant in the hotel’s garden or orchard: The Grapevine, The Pear Tree, The Lemon Tree, The Mimosa… These rooms reveal soft beds covered with cotton thread sheets and wool blanke...

