From the moment we touched down at the airport in Santander, our five day trip to Northern Spain was a cultural whirlwind. That done, we visited the magnificent Magdalena Palace, the onetime summer home of Spanish King Alfonso XIII and his family. They did for Cantabria — located between the Basque Country and Asturias — what Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda did for the French Riviera. It’s a place where traditionally distilled liqueurs, such as Orujo, are drunk and where the region’s infamous ‘green cheese’ is a staple. A unique region that disperses popular myths about what the essence of Spain might be.

Source: Irish Examiner May 19, 2019 15:56 UTC