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1 - Historical - artistic Monumental sets on the Western coast:
- Comillas: historical village (Big houses of the ss. The XVIIth and XVIIIth); Palace of Sobrellano and chapel (of the Marquess of Comillas both); Pontifical University; The Caprice of Gaudi; the Exterminating Angel of Limona (modernism of the XIXth and XXth centuries).
- San Vicente de la Barquera: old town; Castle of the King, tower of Provost, Church of Sta. Maria de los Angeles and convent of San Luis (Gothic S. The XVth).
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3 - In Valdaliga:
- Palace of la Vega, quarter of la Vega, Roiz next to the Parochial Church.
Palaces of gentlemen Sanchez Movellán, Roiz on both sides of the highway.
- Native house of the illustrious architect Sir Juan de Herrera, quarter of Movellan, Roiz. He was the creator of the herrerian style and of the Palace of el Escorial.
- Parochial church of San Salvador, constructed in 1734, quarter of La Vega, Roiz. -Palatial set in Losvia, Lamadrid.
- Path of the Moors: in San Vicente of Monte, (Valdaliga). Remains of the Roman roadway that climbs towards the Saw of el Escudo.
Industrial archaeology:
- Mining town of La Florida
- Preserved mills: in La Vega (only one in functioning), in Bustriguado (used as housing but it preserves the machinery), in Bustillo (housing), in Las Cuevas (-Museum of the Mills-)
In the village of La Concha it is possible to observe in a house a Gothic door of epoch bajomedieval of the so called ones " flat houses ", which together with other architectural and artistic elements of the zone shape the so called MEDIEVAL ITINERARY of the region of the Saja-Nansa.
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4- Other nearby places of interest:
- Museum of the Nature of Cantabria (or Big house of the Haces, XVIIIth century), in Carrejo, Cabezon de la Sal. Tel. 34 942 70 18 08.
- Palace of Mier, in Ruente (regionalist 1886).
- Foundry of Cades, in Cades, (Herrerias). Demonstration of functioning every Saturday at 12 a.m. (to 85 km. of Santander) tel 34 942 70 93 60
- Tower of Cabanzon, in Herrerias (ss. The XIIth - the XIVth) - Church of Sta. Julienne (Romanesque XIIth century), in Lafuente (LaMason).
- Tower of Estrada (ss. The XIIIth - the XIVth), in Estrada (Val de San Vicente).
- Receiving Centre of EcoMuseo Saja-Nansa, Puente Pumar (Polaciones) (to 74 Km. of Santander) 34 942 70 93 60.
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