Las Fraguas

María Obregón Sánchez

• Arenas de Iguña

municipality

•Population: 160

people

•Distance from

Santander: 49 kms

•180 m above sea

level

A little introduction

By car By train

How can we get to Las Fraguas?

Besaya River

Nuestra Señora del Carmen

La casona de la marquesa

Ocho hermanas rural inn

Every 16 July is celebrated

Nuestra Señora del Carmen

festivity

• The Parthenon

•Built in 1890

•Neoclassical style

•Greek temple imitation

San Jorge

church

•English

picturesque palace,

designed by an

English arquitect.

•Built 1897-1904 for

the Santo Mauro

duke.

•Summer residence

of Alfonso XIII

Los Hornillos

palace

Can you

find the

similarities

?

Some films were shot in Las

Fraguas…

(2001) (2002)

Memories