Northern Spain Northern Spain or 'Green Spain' stretches for over 900 kilometres from its border with France and the Pyrenees to Galicia jutting out into the Atlantic and bordering Spain's only other neighbour Portugal. Culturally the area is quite diverse from the incredibly beautiful mixture of ancient and sophisticated Basque country in the east, to the rolling Cantabrian hills, with its holiday resorts and fishing ports, friendly rural Asturias with its National Park, incredible mountain ranges and hidden valleys and finally to the ancient folklore and seafaring people of green and gentle Galicia with its miles of sandy estuaries and easy going way of life. This is beautifully unspoilt Spain, an area that gratefully missed the Mediterranean boom of the 1960s and has kept its culture, towns, fishing villages, monuments and coastlines carefully intact and while the area is now easy to access and well documented for tourists, whether you are off the beaten track in the northern Spanish mountains, or you choose to stick to the coastal resorts or the historic cities you will never for one moment forget you are in Spain!
Main areas: Pais vasco, cantabria, Asturias, Galicia Main cities: San Sebastian, Alava, Bilbao, Santander, Gijon, Oviedo, La Coruña, Vigo, Pontevedra, Santiago de Compostela Main airports: Bilbao, Santander, Oviedo, Coruña, Santiago, Vigo, Alava
Travel Guide to Northern Spain