Santillana del Mar - La Colegiata

The collegiate church of Santillana, the most important church of the kind in Cantabria, occupies the whole of the north side of the Plaza de la Colegiata. It was built in the 12th century on the site of an earlier church in which the relics of St Juliana were preserved, and has an image of the saint over the main doorway. The interior of the church, remodeled in Gothic style, has groined vaulting. Its most notable features are the sarcophagus of St Juliana (15th century), a retablo with paintings by Jorge Inglés (1453), a Mexican silver altar frontal and Romanesque sculpture on the high altar.