La Vijanera
On the first Sunday of each year, the hamlet of Silió in the Molledo valley is taken over by dozens of costumed characters in cattle hides, rags and corn leaves who parade, defend the village boundaries, recite satirical couplets and symbolically capture a bear in a masquerade of pre-Roman origin declared of National Tourist Interest.
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"In its 115th edition, Laredo's Batalla de Flores sees monumental floats clad in up to 180,000 fresh flowers, each carnation pressed on by hand in the hours before the parade, in a dazzling spectacle born in 1908 to evoke a flower-strewn naval battle."
Batalla de Flores de Laredo
"In its XXIV edition, Los Corrales de Buelna re-enacts the last resistance of the Cantabrian tribes against Rome, with 1,500 participants, thirteen Celtic tribes, thirteen Roman legions, a reconstructed Roman camp and Cantabrian village, and the only Fiesta of International Tourist Interest in Cantabria."
Guerras Cántabras
"The medieval mountain village of Potes, gateway to the Picos de Europa, fills with the warm scent of distilling orujo for a three-day fiesta declared of National Tourist Interest, with tastings, craft stalls and a celebration of Liébana's ancient spirits tradition."
Fiesta del Orujo de Potes
"Cabezón de la Sal hosts the regional Día de Cantabria with traditional music, artisan and ceramics fairs, ox-draught competitions, bolos championships, a livestock market and gastronomic stalls, making it the most concentrated celebration of Cantabrian rural identity of the year."
Día de Cantabria
"Comillas, a village of Modernista architecture and Gaudi's El Capricho, marks its patronal week with a donkey race, Cantabrian bagpipe contest, a grand popular meal and the procession of the Santo Cristo accompanied by gaiteros."
Fiestas del Santo Cristo del Amparo