Photo: José Luis Filpo Cabana · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · taken 0.15 km from the village centre (coordinates from Wikimedia Commons)
Santillana del Mar's historic center is closed to motor vehicles, its stone streets unchanged enough to have earned the town the nickname 'the town of three lies' — it is neither holy, flat, nor by the sea. The UNESCO-listed Altamira cave paintings lie two kilometers away.
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