Castro Urdiales is a busy resort in high summer but on a day in late April it was unhurried and relaxed with only a few visitors sauntering along the promenade. We had parked at the beach end of the town which meant there was quite a long walk to reach the harbour further to the west and this took us past the yacht club and elegant balconied sea front buildings all overlooking the wide sheltered harbour where a variety of boats were resting on the muddy sea bed at low tide.
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Tagged Basque Country, Cantabria, Castro Urdiales, El Roble Liendo, Eroski, Liendo, Pintxos, Posada La Torre de la Quintana, Spain
The Basque Country, or Euskadi in the Basque language, is part of the larger Basque region that also icludes Vavarre and stretches into northern France and is an Autonomous Community of northern Spain that was granted the status of historical region in the Spanish Constitution of 1978. The capital is Vitoria-Gasteiz (Vitoria is the name in Spanish, Gasteiz in Basque) and Bilbao is its largest city.
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Tagged Autovia del Cantabria, Bay of Biscay, Bilbao, Cantabria, Castro Urdiales, Easyjet, Euskadi, Ryanair, Seat Ibiza, Sol-Mar Rent a Car, Spain, Vitoria-Gasteiz
