Castro-Urdiales

Castro Urdiales is a fishing harbour and beach resort on the coast of Cantabria in northern Spain, with a population of 33,400 in 2025. Castro indicates a Roman camp, and it was iron ore that led the Romans to establish the settlement of Flaviobriga here. But its heyday was the 19th / 20th century industrial era, along with other ports and mining villages of northern Spain. A couple of gantries for loading ore onto ships are all that remain of those days, and Flaviobriga is buried under modern streets, but there’s a little medieval quarter by the harbour and the anchovy-canning factory is still in business. No-one knows what Urdiales indicates, as good a reason as any why the town is usually just called "Castro".

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Castro-Urdiales is a stopover point on The Camino del Norte. You can reach Santiago de Compostela in 27 days and Santander in 4 days.