Lierganes

Liérganes is a Spanish municipality belonging to the autonomous community of Cantabria. Located 28 kilometers away from Santander, next to the Miera River, Liérganes has an urban complex declared of national historical-artistic interest. The foundation of this mountain town is linked to the monastery of San Martín, in the 9th century. Liérganes had a great industrial boom from the 17th century onwards due to its cannon factory and gained popularity as a spa town with the visit of King Alfonso XIII and the arrival of the railway in 1909. Walking through the streets of Liérganes you will find mansions with popular mountain architecture, palaces of the nobles of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and Indians of the nineteenth century. Among its points of interest are the Puente Mayor and the statue of the Man-fish in the Miera river.