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SANTANDER (See also:ancient See also:Portus Blendium or Fanum S. Andreae) , the See also:capital of the See also:Spanish See also:province of Santander, the seat of a See also:bishop and one of the See also:chief seaports of See also:Spain; 316 m. by See also:rail N. of See also:Madrid, in 43°:27' N. and 30 47' W., on the See also:Bay of Santander, an inlet of the Bay of See also:Biscay. Pop. (1900) 54,564. It is situated on the inside of a rocky See also:peninsula, Cabo See also:Mayor, which shelters a magnificent See also:harbour from 2 to 3 M. wide and 4 M. See also:long. The entrance is at the eastern extremity of the promontory, and is deep, broad, and illuminated by lighthouses on Cabo Mayor and the rocky islet of Mouro. Santander is the See also:terminus of See also:railways from See also:Valladolid and See also:Bilbao, of a See also:branch See also:line from Cabezona de la Sal, and of several See also:mining railways. It is divided into an upper and a See also:lower See also:town. The See also:cathedral, originally See also:Gothic of the 13th See also:century, has been so altered that little of the old See also:work remains. In the See also:crypt, or Capilla del Cristo de Abajo, is an interesting See also:font of Moorish workmanship. The See also:castle of See also:San Felice contains a See also:prison, which was one of the first examples of the radiating See also:system of construction. The See also:city is essentially See also:modern; its See also:principal buildings are the markets, See also:barracks, See also:theatre, See also:bull-See also:ring, clubs, See also:civil and military See also:governors' residences, See also:custom See also:house, hospitals, nautical school, ecclesiastical See also:seminary, and training school for teachers.

Many of the houses on the bay front and public buildings were restored after the See also:

catastrophe of the 3rd of See also:November 1893, when the steamer " Cabo Machichaco," laden with 1700 cases of See also:dynamite, blew up near the See also:quay. The harbour was greatly improved during the second See also:half of the 19th century. In the same See also:period the See also:population nearly trebled, and there was a corresponding development of See also:commerce and manufactures. The See also:port was in 1953 made one of the puertos habilitados, or ports privileged to See also:trade with See also:America, and in 1755 it received the See also:title of city. See also:Charles V. landed here in 1522 when he came to take See also:possession of the Spanish See also:crown, and from this port Charles I. of See also:England embarked on his return from his visit in See also:search of a wife (1623). The city was sacked by the See also:French under See also:Soult in 18o8.

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