Torrelavega

The Autopista AP-8 is a highway (autopista) in the north of Spain and crosses the Basque Country from east to west. It is known as the Autopista del Cantábrico (highway of the Cantabrian) and connects the French border with Bilbao. This toll road passes Donostia-San Sebastián, Zarautz, Eibar and Durango. At Bilbao the Autopista AP-8 changes into the Autovía A-8, which continues along the Spanish northern coast to Gijón and eventually the region of Galicia.

Campos del Malecón, also known as simply El Malecón or Estadio El Malecón, is a stadium in Torrelavega, Spain. It is currently used for football matches and is the home stadium of Gimnástica de Torrelavega. The stadium holds 6,007 spectators and was extensively refurbished in 2011. The ground reopened on 22 January 2012 when Gimnástica played CD Guijuelo. It also hosted the rugby union test match between Spain and Chile on 21 November 2015.

Club Deportivo Tropezón is a football team based in Tanos, Torrelavega in the autonomous community of Cantabria. Founded in 1983, it plays in the Tercera Federación – Group 3. Its stadium is Santa Ana with a capacity of 1,500 seats.

Sociedad Deportiva Barreda Balompié is a football team based in Barreda, Torrelavega in the autonomous community of Cantabria. Founded in 1917, the team plays in Tercera División RFEF – Group 3. The club's home ground is Solvay, which has a capacity of 5,100 spectators.

Cartes is a municipality located in the autonomous community of Cantabria, Spain. According to the 2009 census, the city has a population of 5.118 inhabitants.

The meeting house of Puente San Miguel (Spanish: Casa de juntas de Puente San Miguel), also known as the meeting house of the Nine Valleys, is a small building located in Puente San Miguel (Cantabria, Spain). It is best known for hosting, on 28 July 1778, the assembly of deputies of the Province of the Nine Valleys of the Asturias of Santillana who met there to create the Province of Cantabria, the first modern and fully structured provincial administrative system in the territory that today forms the autonomous community of Cantabria. Before this date, the building served as the meeting place for the deputies of the Nine Valleys. The principal function of the assembly, similar to those of Asturias and the Basque provinces, was to defend provincial interests from royal authority, with special regard for local fueros, customs, privileges, freedoms, franchises, and jurisdictional, governmental, fiscal, and military matters. In 1801, as a result of the territorial policies of Charles IV, the Puente San Miguel assembly and the Province of Cantabria ceased to exist. The Maritime province of Santander was then created by royal decree and made official in 1815. Meetings in the assembly house ended in 1824; the building was later auctioned and demolished. In 1994, it was faithfully reconstructed as a symbol of the origins of modern Cantabria. The regional president delivers a commemorative address there each year during the celebration of the Día de las Instituciones de Cantabria on 28 July, marking the anniversary of the historic 1778 assembly. The building itself is a small, simple structure with a square floor plan and a hipped roof, built in stone, with the entrance wall partially open and constructed of wood. Inside, the coat of arms of Cantabria appears carved into the walls, alongside those of the municipalities that made up the Province of the Nine Valleys: Alfoz de Lloredo, Cabezón de la Sal, Cabuérniga, Camargo, Santa María de Cayón, Penagos, Piélagos, Reocín, and Villaescusa. Dominating the room above the stone presidential table is a wooden rendering of the logo of the Parliament of Cantabria.

Reocín is a municipality in Cantabria, Spain.

Puente San Miguel (Spain) (formerly known as Bárcena la Puente), is the capital of the municipality of Reocín in Cantabria, Spain, and its most important population center, with 15,000 inhabitants (2010). It is located 55 kilometers from Santander and is 41 meters (ASL). It is connected to Santander by the Feve company railway.

Polanco is a municipality located in the autonomous community of Cantabria, Spain. It has a population of 5,585 inhabitants (2013).

Cantabria—Santander until 1982—is one of the 52 constituencies (Spanish: circunscripciones) represented in the Congress of Deputies, the lower chamber of the Spanish parliament, the Cortes Generales. The constituency currently elects five deputies. Its boundaries correspond to those of the Spanish province of Cantabria. The electoral system uses the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation, with a minimum threshold of three percent.

Cantabria is one of the 59 constituencies (Spanish: circunscripciones) represented in the Senate of Spain, the upper chamber of the Spanish parliament, the Cortes Generales. The constituency elects four senators. Its boundaries correspond to those of the Spanish province of Cantabria. The electoral system uses limited voting, with electors voting for individual candidates instead of parties. Electors can vote for up to three candidates.

Cantabria (, also UK: , 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. It is bordered on the east by the Basque autonomous community (province of Biscay), on the south by Castile and León (provinces of León, Palencia and Burgos), on the west by the Principality of Asturias, and on the north by the Cantabrian Sea (Bay of Biscay). Cantabria belongs to Green Spain, the name given to the strip of land between the Bay of Biscay and the Cantabrian Mountains, so called because of its particularly lush vegetation, due to the wet and temperate oceanic climate. The climate is strongly influenced by Atlantic Ocean winds trapped by the mountains; the average annual precipitation is about 1,200 mm (47 inches). Cantabria has archaeological sites from the Upper Paleolithic period, although the first signs of human occupation date from the Lower Paleolithic. The most significant site for cave paintings is in the cave of Altamira, dating from about 37,000 BCE and declared, along with nine other Cantabrian caves, as World Heritage Sites by UNESCO. Historically, the territory sits in the area of Cantabria in the ancient period, but from the Late Middle Ages to the early 19th century, the name Cantabria also referred to the territory of the Basques, especially the lordship of Biscay.The modern Province of Cantabria was constituted on 28 July 1778 at Puente San Miguel, Reocín. The yearly Day of the Institutions holiday on 28 July celebrates this. The Organic Law of the Autonomy Statute of Cantabria, approved on 30 December 1981, gave the region its own institutions of self-government.