Cantabria is a province in northern Spain, and its capital is Santander. Cantabria is the world’s richest region when it comes to archaeology, as it homes to many remaining date from as early as 40,000 to 10,000 years ago – which is called the Upper Paleolithic period. I would really love to get postcards about archaeology, but in the meantime, here are some non-archaeology postcards from Cantabria, which are not bad either :)

ES-1979 from Shwanee. I love views of waterfront cities like this, with boats and all, and open air dining places alongside the water (sea, lake, whatever).

From MarioGV. A lovely sight of old villages by the sea in San Vicete de la Barquera. San Vicente’s old town was declared to be of Cultural Interest because of its interesting collection of monuments,  remainings of the Santa María de los Ángeles church from the 13th and 16th centuries, as well as the Maza bridge. It does look amazing, a seaside village and at the same time snowy mountains at the background! I can’t remember if I have seen such places like this before.

From MarioGV. And the closeup of the mountains!! This view is toooo great to believe, don’t you think? I just thought, wow, is this picture real? :) I mean.. the mountains, I thought you could only see such when you go hundreds miles to some moutainous area, when you can see nothing at all but only snowy mountains around you.. do you get what I mean? But here, it just looks as if you can even get view of mountains like this at the back of your backyard! See the cattles?? Oh I want to move to this village!! :D Okay so these gorgeous mountains are Picos de Europa or the Peaks of Europe.. a range of mountains some 20km inland from northern coast of Spain. These mountains were the first sight of Europe for the ships arriving from America.