North Route from Santiago de Compostela

We will start the morning, like every day of our trip, enjoying a delicious breakfast. The Transcantábrico will bring us closer to Ribadeo, a historic Galician town bordering the Principality of Asturias. From here, we will travel in our accompanying bus along the Lugo coast to Las Catedrales Beach, one of the most spectacular in the world. In addition, we will make a panoramic visit of Ribadeo. After it, we will make a stop to enjoy our food. Back on our train, we enter Asturian lands.   We will visit a spectacular Villa Blanca on the Costa Verde, Luarca, to return to the train and head to Oviedo where we will spend the night.

Ending our breakfast, we begin the day with a visit to the coastal town of Gijón, a city as open to the Cantabrian Sea as it is full of cultural events. We will visit the attractions of this city and we will stop to eat in a restaurant. After our stop, we will travel to the capital of the Principality of Asturias, Oviedo. We will visit the most relevant parts of the city to return to the train. We will have dinner on board while we head towards Llanes where we will spend the night.

We will enjoy an excellent breakfast on board and then our bus will take us to the heart of the Principality of Asturias to reach the magnificent Picos de Europa National Park. We will visit Lake Enol and later we will go to the Sanctuary of Covadonga, a sacred place full of tradition and legend. After this visit, we will go to Cangas de Onís to enjoy our meal. Next, we will arrive in Llanes. We will get to know this wonderful fishing village in eastern Asturias and we will have free time to explore without the guide. We will have dinner and spend the night in Llanes as a continuation of our trip.

Followed by breakfast in our coach, we will ascend to Potes, a picturesque town in Cantabria, crossing the impressive Desfiladero de la Hermida. After visiting this place, we can enjoy a thermal circuit at the Balneario de la Hermida. After lunch, we will visit El Capricho, in Comillas, a brilliant and colorful 19th century mansion by Antonio Gaudí. We will continue to Cabezón de la Sal, where we will have dinner and spend the night.

The first visit on our sixth day on the Transcantábrico will be to the Altamira Neocave, a museum and reliable reproduction of this greatest exponent of Upper Paleolithic rock art. We will travel back in time to medieval times as we stroll through the town of Santillana del Mar, which magnificently preserves an important medieval historical center. Subsequently, we will head by train to Santander, the elegant capital of Cantabria, where we will take a guided tour and have free time to wander around the city. After dinner, we will spend the night in Santander.

The Transcantábrico sets off for Bilbao, a city full of dynamism that has managed to reinvent itself after the decline of its traditional heavy industry. During the visit to the city, we will get to know its corners and its famous Guggenheim museum, symbol of this new Bilbao. After eating with pleasure, we will enjoy free time before taking the train. We will have dinner and stop the night in Carranza.

Enjoying our last breakfast on board, we will return to Bilbao, where our bus awaits us to take us to San Sebastián. We will take a guided tour of this city of elegant beauty. Finally, we will go to the Hotel Costa Vasca in San Sebastián around 13:00 p.m., thus ending this wonderful tour of Northern Spain.