Today is going to be more difficult and this stage is so quite long, you are walking 37 km from Santander to Santillana del Mar and you’ll need a bit more than 9 hours to pass through many villages and small towns.
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Today is going to be more difficult and this stage is so quite long, you are walking 37 km from Santander to Santillana del Mar and you’ll need a bit more than 9 hours to pass through many villages and small towns.