The passage of pilgrims by land remained Cantabria, preferably through the sea ports, after the great European wars interrupted the flow of pilgrims from
France.
Although the documentation is sparse, and the years have erased or blurred many of the tracks jacobeas, this route is now a very attractive alternative for those who may want a tour green and fresh.
Since the beginning of the Jacobean pilgrimage were pious people who approached the miraculous tomb of the apostle through the port and mountains of Cantabria, crossing paths as dangerous then, but now offer the opportunity to discover rosemary thousand unsuspected landscapes.
Accessed by two routes for pilgrims to this land, or walk from the French border and the Basque Country, or landing in any of the ports of Costa Villas lasCuatro: Castro Urdiales, Laredo, Santander and San Vicente de la Barquera, from the countries of northern Europe. 
Until the sixteenth century the influx of pilgrims from all over Europe was high, but the number of devotees walking towards “El Camino de la Estrella” declined rapidly, rose as much as Protestantism and the religious wars that ravaged the continent.
Notwithstanding this, there is ample evidence that many pilgrims continued across the rugged geography of Cantabria until well into the nineteenth century.
To serve their spiritual needs are in the region of carpet churches dedicated to Santiago Matamoros, and they stood along the roads of a large number of hospitals, usually supported by the councils, where they could find shelter at night, heal their diseases or death for a Christian burial.
Jacobean In this context, there are many hidden and mysterious cave churches, the lovely pre-Romanesque, Romanesque and Gothic, and the splendid Renaissance and baroque, in a range that extends from the humble chapel, sometimes placed in incredible places, to the beautiful monasteries and collegiate, with medieval towers and castles rockers, the mansions and palaces of the modern centuries, added a magnificent heritage and Recoleta, together with the monumental old town and port gauged still outstanding, and give meaning to the accompanying roads where more than thousand and was returning from Santiago de Compostela. This is full of intense and evocative symbolism.
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