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Santillana del Mar and Comillas

Location: Spain

Visit the Cave of El Castillo in Puenteviesgo which houses preserved cave art from the Lower Paleolithic Era (over 120,000 years ago) to the Bronze Age (approximately 6,000 years ago).These Paleolithic art styles are said to have been an inspiration for artists such as Picasso and Miró. Walk through Santillana del Mar's medieval streets and learn about the history of the Romanesque Collegiate Church of Santa Juliana and its magnificent cloister.

Travel to Comillas, a coastal fishing village, for lunch and spend the day relaxing by the beach, learning about the Marquis of Comillas or visiting El Capricho, Gaudi's modernist style palace.

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