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"The Parliament of Cantabria: 1. Recognizes the lábaro as a representative and identity symbol of the Cantabrian people and the values they represent. 2. Urges the institutions and civil society of Cantabria to actively promote and participate in their knowledge and dissemination as an iconographic expression of the identity of the Cantabrian ...
Cantabria (/ k æ n ˈ t eɪ b r i ə /, [5] also UK: /-ˈ t æ b-/; [6] [7] Spanish: [kanˈtaβɾja] ⓘ) is an autonomous community and province in northern Spain with Santander as its capital city. It is called a comunidad histórica, a historic community, in its current Statute of Autonomy. [8]
Cantabria, the land of the Cantabri, originally comprised much of the highlands of the northern Spanish Atlantic coast, [2] including the whole of modern Cantabria province, eastern Asturias, nearby mountainous regions of Castile and León, the northern of province of Palencia and province of Burgos and northeast of province of León.
Mowing meadows in Cantabria. On the Cantabrian coast, dispersed settlements predominate. It is often referred to as Green Spain (a direct translation into English of the Spanish España Verde) because its wet and temperate oceanic climate helps lush pastures and forests thrive, providing a landscape similar to that of Ireland, Great Britain, and the west coast of France.
People and things related to the modern Spanish autonomous community and historical region of Cantabria. Cantabrian people, modern inhabitants of Cantabria; Basques, as they were sometimes referred during Modern Age; Cantabrian Mountains, mountain range in Northern Spain; Cantabrian Sea, southern end of the Bay of Biscay
The Duchy of Cantabria was created by the Visigoths in northern Spain. Its precise extension is unclear in the different periods, but it seems likely that it included Cantabria , parts of Northern Castile , La Rioja , and probably western areas of Biscay and Álava .
The Spanish capital region, Community of Madrid, has the highest life expectancy for women in Europe (88.2 years); this is followed by five other Spanish regions: Navarre (87.6 years), Castile and León (87.5 years), Cantabria (87.1 years), Galicia (87.0 years) and the Basque Country (87.0 years). Furthermore, Community of Madrid is second and ...
The Government of Cantabria is one of the statutory institutions that conform the Autonomous Community of Cantabria.It is the superior collegiate body that directs the politics and the Administration of this Spanish autonomous community, and at the same time the holder of the executive power as well as the regulatory authority over said territory.