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Even compared with other areas of northern Spain, such as Galicia, which have many more hours of sunshine in coastal cities such as Vigo or Pontevedra. With annual averages of approximately 1650 hours of sunshine, Santander's southern areas are about as sunny as London and Paris, and quite a bit less sunny than most of England's south coastal ...
Santander sponsored the UEFA Champions League for two years, from the 2018–19 season to 2020–21. [49] [50] Santander has also sponsored the main South American club competition Copa Libertadores since 2008 for the South American markets. [51] IIn Formula One, from 2007 to 2017, Santander was a corporate sponsor of the Ferrari and McLaren teams.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Santander, Cantabria, Spain This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
The port of Santander with the Martillo dock in the foreground and the Naos dock on the left, in front of the Castle, 1867 (photo by J. Laurent).. At the end of the Cantabrian Wars, specifically in 19 B.C., the Romans founded the port of Portus Victoriae, which some authors identify with Santander and others with Santoña.
Outside statues in the Cathedral of Santander. The cathedral is a historical monumental complex built between the end of the 12th century and the 14th century on top of the former Santander Abbey also known as the "Abbey of the Holy Bodies" (Abadía de los Cuerpos Santos), an old monastery dedicated to Saints Emeterius and Celedonius.
The Bay of Santander is both a comarca of Cantabria and the largest estuary on the North coast of Spain, with an extension of 22.42 km 2 (9 km long and 5 km wide). Due to the influence of Santander and its metropolitan area, [3] nearly half of the population of the autonomous community of Cantabria is gathered around it, [4] which makes the anthropic pressure on this area of water quite notable.
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This is a list of banks in Spain. ... Banco de Vizcaya, and state-owned Banco Argentaria) and three now combined as Santander (Banco Central, Banco Hispanoamericano ...