🏢 About the local organisation
SVI (International Volunteering Service), is part of the Spanish Institute for Youth (Instituto de la Juventud-Injuve), a Public Institution dependent on the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality, whose main purpose is to promote international volunteering projects and activities among youth people. The SVI coordinates the international work camps organized by the Autonomous Communities and Autonomous Cities in Spain, and is responsible for managing the exchange of available places between the Work Camps in Spain and the International Organizations.
💼 What the programme involves
It is a pilgrimage route and a meeting place which ends in the monastery of Santo Toribio de Liébana. It is an enriching experience and a teaching of tolerance and co-existenceMaintenance and development in order to know the Lebaniego road. It will consist of 14 stages on foot:
1ºday.Meeting point at 4 p.m in Santander, at El Sardinero Campos de Sport and bus transfer to El Haya.
2ºday.El Haya-Castro Urdiales. In this village you can visit the interesting old town with traditional narrow streets.Its architectural heritage consists of Santa María Church-the best gothic work of Cantabria(built between the XIII-XV centuries)-, the castle-lighthouse located next to it and the beautiful medieval bridge and Santa Ana hermitage. It is declared Historical complex. There is a much visited beach in the village.
3ºday.Castro Urdiales-Guriezo.You can visit the parish church of San Vicente, located in Rioseco.It has a great portico which rises in the centre and covered with a groin vault.
4ºday.Guriezo-Laredo. It has an outstanding beauty of nature:The beach of Regatón, which fans out on the inner part of the estuary of Treto.On the other hand, the fantastic beaches and dunes known as Salvé,facing the Cantabrian Sea. It has the Q quality symbol.
5ºday.Laredo-Noja.The municipality has become,over the last few years, in a really important tourist centre thanks to its extraordinary coastline and beautiful beaches.
6ºday.Noja-Laredo.It means being in full nature, a marvellous beach ideal for walking and surfing, with breathtaking sunsets.
7ºday.Loredo-Puente Arce. There is a Maple bridge over the Pas river. It is the most relevant civil engineering work declared Place of Cultural Interest.
8ºday.Puente Arce-Santillana del Mar. It is a medieval villa built around the Collegiate Church of Santa Juliana, although most of its hamlets associated with the architectural works from the XIV and XVIII centuries. The historic-artistic ensemble of Santillana can only be visited on foot.2 kilometres away from it lies another great artistic treasure of Cantabria:the universally recognized Altamira Caves.
9ºday.Santillana del Mar-Comillas. It is a small but populated town worth a long walk through its stoned historic old part,declared Artistic-Historic Ensemble.There are many elements of interest, especially certain buildings such as el Capricho de Gaudí, the Universidad Pontificia, Palacio de Sobrellano, Capilla Panteón, etc.It is also a seaside town with an accessible beach.
10ºday.Comillas-Muñorrodero. It combines beaches in the coastal zone with rural areas inland. Near the town lies the cave of La Fuente de Salín or del Salón,an Asset of Cultural Interest.
11ºday.Muñorrodero-Cades. The most important buildings are: Ferrería de Cades, which was finally built in 1752 and is part of a set of remarkable complexity, the owners´emblazoned house and the presence of a bread basket. All of them complete this rural landscape.
12ºday.Cades-Cicera. It has a natural, scenic and important patrimonial wealth such as it church.
13ºday.Cicera-Tama. It is located in the Liébana Valley, which offers ideal enjoyable landscapes.
14ºday.Tama-Santo Toribio-Potes.Santo Toribio is a Franciscan monastery located in the municipality of Camaleño, in the region of Liébana. It was declared National Monument.It holds one of the 5 Jubilar Years commemorated all over the world: numerous pilgrims repeat the ritual of walking through La Puerta del Perdón. Precisely 2017 is Jubilar Year. The municipality of Potes is located in the centre of the region of Liébana, where the Deva and Quiviesa rivers find each other. Surrounded by an stunning landscape and situated at the confluence of the four valleys of the Region, the villa reveals its rich history at every turn. In Camaleño lies the village of Fuente De, in which there is a cable car saving a drop of 753 metres and a cable length of 1840 metres that leads to a lookout in the Picos de Europa.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Itinerant:1º Baltezana: Red Cross Hostel2º Castro Urdiales Sport Centre3º Guriezo Sport Centre4º Laredo Sport Centre5º Noja Hostel6º Loredo Hostel7º Puente Arce Sport Centre8º Santillana Sport Centre9º Comillas Sport Centre10º Pesué Sport Centre11º Cades Old Schools12º La Fuente Hostel-Quintanilla Parish House13º Tama Hostel